 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
 | Samuel Manning - 1866 - 228 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...above them, in the broad archivolts, a continuous change of language and of life — angels, and the signs of heaven and the labours of men, each in... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1866 - 228 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...above them, in the broad archivolts, a continuous change of language and ot life — angels, and the signs of heaven and the labours of men, each in... | |
 | George Henry Duncan Mathias - 1867 - 292 pages
...after line of azure undulation, as the receding tide leaves the waved sand ; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting...and of 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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1867 - 458 pages
...after line of azure undiilation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand ; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting....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... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1867 - 502 pages
...waved sand ; their capifcus rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting kafres of 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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1869 - 390 pages
...after line of pleasant undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand ; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting...above them, in the broad archivolts, a continuous change of language and of life—angels, and the signs of heaven and the labours of men, each in its... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1869 - 400 pages
...waved sand ; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting Jeaves of acanthus and vine, and mystical signs, all beginning...above them, in the broad archivolts, a continuous change of language and of life — angels, and the signs of heaven and the labours of men, each in... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 500 pages
...rooted knots of herbage, and drifting k'afres of acanthus and vine, and mystical signs, all begin. n ing and ending in the Cross ; and above them, in the broad...life — angels, and the signs of heaven, and the labors of men, each in ita appointed season upon the earth ; and above these, another range of glittering... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1872 - 500 pages
...rooted knots of herbage, and drifting leases of acanthus and vine, and mystical signs, all begin, ning and ending in the Cross ; and above them, in the broad...life — angels, and the signs of heaven, and the labors of men, each in ita appointed season upon the earth ; and above these, another range of glittering... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1873 - 460 pages
...after line of azure unrlw lation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand ; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting...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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