 ... so lightly, for its substance is white, hollow, and carious, like the dusty wreck of the bones of men. The long knotted grass waves and tosses feebly in the evening wind, and the shadows of its motion shake feverishly along the banks of ruin that...  Nineteenth Century and After - Seite 5691895Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1847 - 610 Seiten
...its motion shake feverishly along the banks of ruin that lift themselves to the sunlight ; hillocks of mouldering earth heave around him, as if the dead beneath were struggling in thensleep ; scattered blocks of black stone, four-square, remnants of mighty edifices, not one left... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 Seiten
...shake feverishly along the banks of rivers that lift themselves to the sunlight. Hillocks of moldering earth heave around him, as if the dead beneath were...in their sleep ; scattered blocks of black stone, four square, remnants of mighty edifices, not one left upon another, lie upon them to keep them down.... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 Seiten
...shake feverishly along the banks of rivers that lift themselves to the sunlight. Hillocks of moldering earth heave around him, as if the dead beneath were...in their sleep ; scattered blocks of black stone, four square, remnants of mighty edifices, not one left upon another, lie upon them to keep them down.... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 478 Seiten
...rivers that lift themselves to the sunlight. Hillocks of moldering earth heave around him, as if th* dead beneath were struggling in their sleep ; scattered blocks of black stone, four square, remnants of mighty edifices, not one left upon another, lie upon them to keep them down.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1857 - 500 Seiten
...of its motion shake feverishly along the banks of ruin that lift themselves to the sunlight Hillocks of mouldering earth heave around him, as if the dead...edifices, not one left upon another, lie upon them to 1 The vegetable soil of the Campagna is chiefly formed by decomposed lavas, and under it lies a bed... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 Seiten
...as if the dead beneath were struggling in their sleep; scattered blocks of black stone, four square, remnants of mighty edifices, not one left upon another,...along the desert, veiling its spectral wrecks of massy rums, on whose rents the red light rests, like dying fire on defiled altars. The blue ridge of the... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 Seiten
...beneath were struggling in their sleep ; scattered remnants of mighty edifices, not one stone left upou another, lie upon them to keep them down ... A dull,...stretches level along the desert, veiling its spectral wrecksof massy ruins, on whose rents the red lightrests likedying fire on defiled altars. The blue... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 Seiten
...its motion shake feverishly along the banks of ruin that lift themselves to the sunlight. Hillocks of mouldering earth heave around him, as if the dead...in their sleep ; scattered blocks of black stone, four square, remnants of mighty edifices, not one left upon another, lie upon them, to keep them down.... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 Seiten
...its motion shake feverishly along the banks of ruin that lift themselves to the sunlight. Hillocks of mouldering earth heave around him, as if the dead...level along the desert, veiling its spectral wrecks of mossy ruins, on whose rents the red light rests like lying fire on defiled altars. The blue ridge of... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1867 - 502 Seiten
...its motion shake feverishly along the banks of ruin that lift themselves to the sunlight. Hillocks of mouldering earth heave around him, as if the dead beneath were struggling in their ' Oo O sleep ; scattered blocks of black stone, four square, remnants of mighty edifices, not one left... | |
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