 Here the exquisite execution of the glossy and crisp hair of the dog, the bright sharp touching of the green bough beside it, the clear painting of the wood of the coffin and the folds of the blanket, are language — language clear and expressive in...  The Illustrated photographer - Page 2411870Full view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - 1889 - 512 pages
...exquisite execution of the glossy and crisp hair of the dog, the bright sharp touching of the green bough beside it, the clear painting of the wood of the coffin and the folds of the blaaket, are language- -language clear and expressive in the highest degree. But the close pressure... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1890 - 376 pages
...exquisite execution of the glossy and crisp hair of the dog, the bright sharp touching of the green bough beside it, the clear painting of the wood of...has dragged the blanket off the trestle, the total powenessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of... | |
 | Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1911 - 996 pages
...exquisite execution of the glossy and crisp hair of the dog, the bright sharp touching of the green bough beside it, the clear painting of the wood of...the total powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the eye in its utter hopelessness, the rigidity... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 452 pages
...exquisite execution of the glossy and crisp hair of the dog, the bright, sharp touching of the green bough beside it, the clear painting of the wood of...the total powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the eye in its utter hopelessness, the rigidity... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - 1891 - 474 pages
...exquisite execution of the glossy and crisp hair of the dog, the bright, sharp touching of the green bough beside it, the clear painting of the wood of...the total powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the eye in its utter hopelessness, the rigidity... | |
 | Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead - 1892 - 204 pages
...the clear painting of the wood on the coffin, and the folds of the blanket, are language,—language clear and expressive in the highest degree. But the...against the wood, the convulsive clinging of the paws, the total powerlessness of the head, laid close and motionless upon the blanket's folds, the fixed... | |
 | Gertrude Buck, Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - 1899 - 312 pages
...exquisite execution ot the glossy and crisp hair of the dog, the bright sharp touching of the green bough beside it, the clear painting of the wood of...the total powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds; the fixed and tearful fall of the eye in its utter hopelessness; the rigidity... | |
 | Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson - 1899 - 280 pages
...exquisite execution of the glossy and crisp hair of the dog, the bright, sharp touching of the green bough beside it, the clear painting of the wood of...the total powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the eye in its utter hopelessness, the rigidity... | |
 | 1901 - 130 pages
...despair. A beautiful description by Ruskin suggests the important points to notice in the picture, — " the close pressure of the dog's breast against the...the total powerlessness of the head laid close and motionless upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the eye in its utter hopelessness, the rigidity... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1902 - 484 pages
...exquisite execution of the glossy and crisp hair of the dog, the bright sharp touching of the green bough beside it, the clear painting of the wood of...the total powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the eye in its utter hopelessness, the rigidity... | |
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