 ... lightning opens in a cloud at sunset ; the motionless masses of dark rock — dark though flushed with scarlet lichen — casting their quiet shadows across its restless radiance, the fountain underneath them filling its marble hollow with blue mist...  The Nation - Page 671900Full view - About this book
 | 1843 - 832 pages
...opening in sndden gleams as the foliage hroke and closed ahove it, as sheet lightning opens in a clond at sunset ; the motionless masses of dark rock —...scarlet lichen — casting their quiet shadows across its restless radiance, the fountain underneath them filling its marhle hollow with hlue mist and fitful... | |
 | 1843 - 1380 pages
...stars, fading and kindling alternately as the weak wind lifted and let them fall. Every glade of grass burned like the golden floor of heaven, opening in...scarlet lichen — casting their quiet shadows across its restless radiance, the fountain underneath them filling its marble hollow with blue mist and fitful... | |
 | 1844 - 532 pages
...stars, fading and kindling alternately as the weak wind lifted and let them fall. Every glade of grass burned like the golden floor of heaven, opening in...in a cloud at sunset; the motionless masses of dark rock—dark, though flushed with scarlet lichen —casting their quiet shadows across its restless... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...stars, fading and kindling alternately as the weak wind lifted and let them fall. Every glade of grass burned like the golden floor of heaven, opening in...it, as sheet lightning opens in a cloud at sunset ! — Modern Painters. 4. The poems of Byron are as the scenes of a summer evening, where all is tender,... | |
 | 1853 - 442 pages
...stars, fading and kindling alternately as the weak wind lifted and let them fall. Every blade of grass burned like the golden floor of heaven, opening in...scarlet lichen, casting their quiet shadows across its restless radiance, the fountain underneath them filling its marble hollow with blue mist and fitful... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pages
...stars, fading and kindling alternately as the weak wind lifted and let them fall. Every blade of grass burned like the golden floor of heaven, opening in...scarlet lichen, casting their quiet shadows across its restless radiance, the fountain underneath them filling its marble hollow with blue mist and fitful... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 pages
...stars, fading and kindling alternately as the weak wind lifted and let them fall. Every glade of grass burned like the golden floor of heaven, opening in...it, as sheet lightning opens in a cloud at sunset ! — Modern Painters. 4. The poems of Byron are as the scenes of a summer evening, where all is tender,... | |
 | 1855 - 528 pages
...stars, fading and kindling alternately as the weak wind lifted and let them fall. Every glade of grass burned like the golden floor of heaven, opening in...gleams as the foliage broke and closed above it, as sheet-lightning opens in a cloud at sunset : the motionless masses of dark rock — dark though flushed... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1857 - 502 pages
...stars, fading and kindling alternately as the weak wind lifted and let them fall. Every glade of grass burned like the golden floor of heaven, opening in...gleams as the foliage broke and closed above it, as sheet-lightning opens in a cloud at sunset; the motionless masses of dark rock — dark though flushed... | |
 | 1857 - 452 pages
...stars, fading and kindling alternately as the weak wind lifted and let them fall. Every blade of grass burned like the golden floor of heaven, opening in...and closed above it, as sheet lightning opens in a eloud at sunset the motionless masses of dark rock — dark, though flushed with scarlet lichen, casting... | |
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