 ... a confusion of delight, amidst which the breasts of the Greek horses are seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength, and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstasy, the crests of the arches...  Art and Life: A Ruskin Anthology - Page 174by John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 593 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1854 - 526 pages
...are seen blazing m their breadth of golden strength, and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue Held covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstasy,...into a marble foam, and toss themselves far into the bine sky in flashes and wreaths of sculptured spray, as if the breakers on the Lido shore had been... | |
 | Charles Williams - Alps - 1854 - 662 pages
...flashes and wreaths of sculptured spray, as if the breakers of the Lido shore had been first bound before they fell, and the sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst. " Between that grim cathedral of England and this what an interval ! There is a type of it in the very... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - Advertising - 1857 - 138 pages
...seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength ; and the St. Mark's lion lifted in a blue field, covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstasy,...sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst." " Byzantine architecture," remarks a writer, himself a great admirer of Ruskin, and who frequently... | |
 | Rand - 1857 - 344 pages
...and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstacy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam,...sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst. " Between that grim cathedral of England and this, what an interval ! There is a type of it in the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...are seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength, and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstasy,...breakers on the Lido shore had been frostbound before tfiey fell, and the sea nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst. Between that grim cathedral... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in eestasy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam,...breakers on the Lido shore had been frostbound before tiiey fell, and the sea nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst. ~J Between that grim cathedral... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 496 pages
...and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in eestasy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam,...breakers on the Lido shore had been frostbound before tohey fell, and the sea nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst. Between that grim cathedral... | |
 | Samuel Manning - Switzerland - 1866 - 228 pages
...and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstacy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam,...sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst." The commencement of the fifteenth century was perhaps the most flourishing period in the history of Venice.... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1866 - 248 pages
...and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstacy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam,...sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst." The commencement of the fifteenth century was perhaps the most flourishing period in the history of Venice.... | |
 | 1866 - 950 pages
...blue field covered with stars, until at last, »s if in ecstasy, the crests of the arches break into marble foam and toss themselves far into the blue...of sculptured spray, as if the breakers on the Lido had been frost-bound before they fell, and the sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst."... | |
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