 implacable smiting of the black waves, provoking each other on, endlessly, all the infinite march of the Atlantic rolling on behind them to their help and still to strike them back into a wreath of smoke and futile foam, and win its way against them,...  The Review of Reviews - Page 292edited by - 1895Full view - About this book
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1863 - 254 pages
...surges, provoking each other endlessly, all the infinite march of the Atlantic rolling on behind thenij to their help, and still to strike them back into...futile foam, and win its way against them, and keep the charge of life away from them, doth any other soulless thing do as much as this ? " — Ruskin.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...to bare its breast, moment after moment, against the unwearied enmity of ocean ; the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the black waves, provoking each...behind them to their help, and still to strike them to back into a wreath of smoke and futile foam, and win its way against them, and keep its charge of... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...of the black waves, provoking each on endlessly, all the infinite march of the Atlantic rolling on d them to their help, and still to strike them back into a h of smoke and futile foam, and win its way against them, ceep its charge of life from them. Does any... | |
 | 1881 - 416 pages
...waters, to bare its breast moment after moment against the unwearied enmity of ocean, the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the black waves provoking each...against them, and keep its charge of life from them." On we go keeping sight of the shore, past Oxwich bay and Port Eyuon bay, all the land seeming asleep... | |
 | Strait gate - 1881 - 248 pages
...waters, bearing its breast moment after moment against the unwearied enmity of ocean, the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the black waves, provoking each...Atlantic rolling on behind them to their help, and it the while striking them back into a wreath of smoke and futile foam, and winning its way against... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...to bare its breast, moment after moment, against the unwearied enmity of ocean ; the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the black waves, provoking each...of life from them. Does any other soulless thing do as much as this ? JOHN RUSKIN. THE FORSAKEN MERMAN. COME, dear children, let us away ; Down and away... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1899 - 350 pages
...bare its breast, moment after moment, against the unwearied enmity of ocean,—the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the black waves, provoking each...way against them, and keep its charge of life from them;—does any other soulless thing do as much as this?' This noble paragraph has truth, originality,... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1899 - 338 pages
...bare its breast, moment after moment, against the unwearied enmity of ocean,—the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the black waves, provoking each...way against them, and keep its charge of life from them;—does any other soulless thing do as much as this?' This noble paragraph has truth, originality,... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1903 - 378 pages
...to bare its breast, moment after moment, against the unwearied enmity of ocean ; the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the black waves, provoking each...against them, and keep its charge of life from them. 1 Does any other soulless thing do as much as this? . . . Ruskin's Central Idea is the perfection of... | |
 | Herbert Warington Smyth - 1906 - 538 pages
...waters, to bear its breast moment after moment against the unweaned enmity of ocean, the subtle, fitful, implacable smiting of the black waves, provoking each...life from them ; does any other soulless thing do as much as this ? ' 1 The pleasure-boat and the yacht form no part of the subject of these pages. Modern... | |
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