 ... 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
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1909 - 572 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,...crests of the arches break into a marble foam, and toss themsejves far into the blue sky in flashes and wreaths of sculptured spray, as if the breakers on... | |
 | Frances Campbell Berkeley Young - English language - 1910 - 502 pages
...are seen bla/ing 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,...they fell, and the sea-nymphs had inlaid them with 5 coral and amethyst. Between that grim cathedral of England and this, what an interval! There is a... | |
 | CANON & MRS. LONSDALE RAGG - 1916 - 542 pages
...Greek horses are seen blazing in their golden strength, and the St. Mark's Lion lifted on a blue field covered with stars ; until at last, as if in ecstasy,...toss themselves far into the blue sky in flashes and wreathes of sculptured spray." Thus Ruskin, in one of the most impassioned and felicitous passages... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 964 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,...crests of the arches break into a marble foam, and toss them- [430 selves far into the blue sky in flashes and wreaths of sculptured spray, as if the breakers... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...golden strength, and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, a; M - them- [430 selves far into the blue sky in flashes and wreaths of sculptured spray, as if the breakers... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1917 - 716 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,...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... | |
 | John Ruskin - Art - 1918 - 456 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,...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... | |
 | 1919 - 478 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,...sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst. Notice the unusual proportion of adjectives in this selection, and particularly those that may be classed... | |
 | Alfred Mansfield Brooks - Art - 1919 - 330 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,...shore had been frostbound before they fell, and the sea nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst. WELLS CATHEDRAL HENRY JAMES HE pleasantest things... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - American essays - 1920 - 492 pages
...forms an important element in the decoration of the cathedral dedicated to. him. lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstasy,...foam, and toss themselves far into the blue sky in Hashes and wreaths of sculptured spray, as if the breakers on the Lido shore13 had been frost-bound... | |
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