... limiting itself to a state of apparent liquidity, but now striking like a steel gauntlet, and now becoming a cloud, and vanishing, no eye could tell whither; one moment a flint cave, the next a marble pillar, the next a mere white fleece thickening... Temple Bar - Page 50edited by - 1888Full view - About this book
| John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...striking like a steel gauntlet, and now becoming a cloud, and vanishing, no eye could tell whither ; one moment a flint cave, the next a marble pillar, the next a mere white fleece thickening the thundery rain. He never forgot those facts ; never afterwards was... | |
| John Ruskin - Architecture, Italian - 1875 - 200 pages
...it. I am rather proud of the short sentence in the " Harbours of England," describing a great breaker against rock;— "One moment, a flint cave,— the...next, a marble pillar, — the next, a fading cloud." But there is nothing in sea-description, detailed, like Dickens' storm at the death of Ham, in " David... | |
| John Ruskin - 1875 - 206 pages
...it. I am rather proud of the short sentence in the 'Harbours of England,' describing a great breaker against rock ; — " One moment, a flint cave, —...next, a marble pillar, — the next, a fading cloud." But there is nothing in sea-description, detailed, like Dickens' storm at the death of Ham, in 'David... | |
| William Edward Armytage Axon - Authors, English - 1879 - 32 pages
...Agrestes he notes that he was rather proud of the short sentence in this book, describing a great breaker against rock : " One moment; a flint cave, — the...next, a marble pillar, — the next, a fading cloud " (page 73). The Elements of Drawing, first published in 1857, came to a second edition in the same... | |
| Manchester Literary Club - English literature - 1879 - 336 pages
...Agrestes he notes that he was rather proud of the short sentence in this- book, describing a great breaker against rock: " One moment, a flint cave,— the next, a marble pillar, — the next, a fading cloud" (page 73). The Elements of Drawing, first published in 1857, came to a second edition in the same year.... | |
| John Ruskin - Art - 1880 - 204 pages
...it. I am rather proud of the short sentence in the ' Harbours of England,' describing a great breaker against rock ; — " One moment, a flint cave, —...next, a marble pillar, — the next, a fading cloud." But there is nothing in sea-description, detailed, like Dickens' storm at the death of Ham, in ' David... | |
| Missions - 1884 - 1304 pages
...single sentence describes one of these breakers dashing against the rock as no other words could do: ' One moment, a flint cave ; the next, a marble pillar ; the next, a fading cloud.' How do these mighty waves come into existence 1 What force drives them in their resistless course to... | |
| John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - Art - 1886 - 600 pages
...dazzling sweeps of sand. — Stones of Venice, I., p. 226. THE BREAKING OF A SEA-WAVE AGAINST A CLIFF. —One moment a flint cave— the next, a marble pillar,— the next a fading cloud.— /far&or« of England. THE UNSHOVELLED GRAVES OF THE SEA.— The calm gray abyss of the sea, that has... | |
| John Ruskin - Readers - 1890 - 276 pages
...precipice, and not one thrust another. — The Eagle's Nest, vii. sec. 30. THE BREAKER ON THE ROCKS. One moment, a flint cave: the next, a marble pillar: the next, a mere white fleece thickening the thundery rain. — The Harbors of England. THE SPIIUT OF THE SOLDANELLA.... | |
| George Henry Lewes - Authorship - 1891 - 186 pages
..." I am rather proud of the short sentence in the ' Harbours of England,' describing a great breaker against rock, — ' One moment a flint cave, — the...next a marble pillar, — the next, a fading cloud.' ' ' — Ruskin, notes to Vol. I. of ' Modern Painters.' 2 This and the two preceding sentences are... | |
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