It had been wild weather when I left Rome, and all across the Campagna the clouds were sweeping in sulphurous blue, with a clap of thunder or two, and breaking gleams of sun along the Claudian aqueduct lighting up the infinity of its arches like the bridge... Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin - Page 53by John Ruskin - 1884 - 479 pagesFull view - About this book
| Scotland - 1843 - 1380 pages
...after you leave Albano ; — it had been wild weather when I left Rome, and all across the Campagna the clouds were sweeping in sulphurous blue, with a clap...and graceful darkness of its ilex grove rose against pure streaks of alternate blue and amber, the upper sky gradually flushing through the last fragments... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1843 - 750 pages
...prototypes of Veiento.* It had been wild weather when I left Rome, and all across the Campagna the clouds were sweeping in sulphurous blue, with a clap...graceful darkness of its ilex grove, rose against pure streaks of alternate blue and amber, the upper sky gradually flushing through the last fragments... | |
| 1844 - 532 pages
...Blandaque devexsejactaret basis rhedie," wild weather when I left Rome, and all across the Campagna the clouds were sweeping in sulphurous blue, with a clap...and graceful darkness of its ilex grove rose against pure streaks of alternate blue and amber, the upper sky gradually flushing through the last fragments... | |
| Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 pages
...leave Albano. It had been wild weather when I left Eome, and all across the Campagna the clouds mere sweeping in sulphurous blue, with a clap of thunder...gleams of sun along the Claudian aqueduct, lighting up its arches like the bridge of chaos. But as I climbed the long slope of the Alban mount, the storm... | |
| American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...leave Albano. It had been wild weather when I left Rome, and all across the Campagna the clouds mere sweeping in sulphurous blue, with a clap of thunder...gleams of sun along the Claudian aqueduct, lighting up its arches 219 like the bridge of chaos. But as I climbed the long slope of the Alb5n mount, the storm... | |
| John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1857 - 502 pages
...prototypes of Veiento.1 It had been wild weather when I left Rome, and all across the Campagna the clouds were sweeping in sulphurous blue, with a clap...thunder or two, and breaking gleams of sun along the Glaudian aqueduct, lighting up the infinity of its arches like the bridge of chaos. But as I climbed... | |
| John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1857 - 500 pages
...prototypes of Veiento.1 It had been wild weather when I left Rome, and all across the Campagna the clouds were sweeping in sulphurous blue, with a clap...graceful darkness of its ilex grove, rose against pure streaks of alternate blue and amber ; the upper sky gradually flushing through the last fragments... | |
| American literature - 1857 - 452 pages
...and breaking gleams of sun along the Claudian aqueduct, lighting up its arches OF THE OPEN SKY. 219 like the bridge of chaos. But as I climbed the long...north, and the noble outline of the domes of Albano and the graceful darkness of its ilex grove rose against pure streaks of alternate blue and amber, the... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...ancient prototypes of Veiento. It had been wild weather when I left Rome, and all across the Campagna the clouds were sweeping in sulphurous blue, with a clap...of sun along the Claudian aqueduct, lighting up the mfinity of its arches like the bridge of Chaos. But as I climbed the long slope of the Alban Mount,... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...after you leave Albano. It had been wild weather when I left Rome, and all across the Campagna the clouds were sweeping in sulphurous blue, with a clap...the storm swept finally to the north, and the noble outlines of the domes of Albano, and graceful darkness of its ilex groves, rose against pure streaks... | |
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