 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
 | Rose Mary, Kavana, Arthur Beatty - 1902 - 468 pages
...Shepherd's Chief Mourner," which represents a dog lying by the coffin of its master, the old shepherd : 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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 824 pages
...**^M-^uW^ /^ FACSIMILE OF A PAGE or AN EARLY DRAFT OF " MODERN PAINTERS," Vv (Pt. L sec. i. ch. ii. § 4) the coffin and the folds of the blanket, are language...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 - 1903 - 910 pages
...t FACSIMILE OF A PAGE OF AN EARLY DRAFT OF "MODERN PAINTERS/' VOL. I (Pt. i. sec. i. ch. ii. § 4) the coffin and the folds of the blanket, are language...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 - 1903 - 824 pages
...** FACSIMILE OF A PAGE OF AN EARLY DRAFT OF " MODERN PAINTERS," VOL. I (Pt. i. sec. i. ch. ii. § 4) the coffin and the folds of the blanket, are language...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... | |
 | 1904 - 516 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... | |
 | Alfred Mansfield Brooks - 1919 - 416 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... | |
 | Alfred Mansfield Brooks - 1919 - 330 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...which has dragged the blanket off the trestle, the tot?l powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall... | |
 | Stratton Duluth Brooks - 1912 - 462 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... | |
 | 1856 - 596 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 of the folds of the blanket, are language — language clear and expressive in the highest degree.... | |
 | Richard L. Stein - 1988 - 361 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 blanket" — all this, Ruskin emphasizes, using the word twice, is language; he might have said poetry. What... | |
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