 their bluest veins to kiss" — the shadow as it steals back from them revealing line after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting leaves of...  Selections from the Works of John Ruskin - Page 163by John Ruskin - 1908 - 328 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ecclesiological society - 1853 - 942 pages
...after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand, their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting...archivolts, a continuous chain of language and of life,—angels, and the signs of heaven, and the labours of men, each in its appointed season upon... | |
 | 1853 - 1042 pages
...after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand ; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery; rooted knots of herbage, and drifting...broad archivolts, a continuous chain of language and life — angels, and the signs of heaven, and the labours of men, each in its appointed season upon... | |
 | 1854 - 632 pages
...hue after hue of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand, their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting...broad archivolts, a continuous chain of language and life — angels and signs of heaven and the labours of men, each in its appointed season upon the earth,... | |
 | Crystal palace - 1854 - 250 pages
...after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting...ending in the cross; and above them, in the broad arches, rolls a continuous chain of languages of life ; angels, and the sign* of heaven, and the labours... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1854 - 668 pages
...after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand ; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting...acanthus and vine, and mystical signs all beginning nnd ending in the cross ; and above them, in the broad archivolts, a continuous chain of language and... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1854 - 662 pages
...after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand ; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting leaves of acanthus and лапе, and mystical signs all beginning and ending in the cross ; and above them, in the broad archivolte,... | |
 | 1854 - 526 pages
...porches, piüars of jasper and porphyry and deep-green serpentine spotted with flakes of snow; and above, in the broad archivolts, a continuous chain of language and of life, and a range of glittering pinnacles, and white arches edged with scarlet flowers, — "a confusion... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1857 - 138 pages
...after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand ; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting...ending in the cross ; and above them, in the broad arches, rolls a continuous chain of languages of life ; angels and the signs of heaven, and the labours... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting...archivolts, a continuous chain of language and of life—angels, and the signs of heaven, and the labors of men, each in its appointed season upon the... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 pages
...sand ; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting leaves pf acanthus and vine, and mystical signs, all beginning...life — angels, and the signs of heaven, and the labors of men, each in its appointed season upon the earth ; and above these, another range of glittering... | |
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