 | 1853 - 512 pages
...lifted and carved in every place, and upon every stone ; sometimes with the serpent of eternity wrapt round it, sometimes with doves beneath its arms, and...forth from its feet ; but conspicuous most of all on (in i"') the great rood that crosses the church before the altar, raised in bright blazonry against... | |
 | Crystal palace - 1854 - 250 pages
...and the pleasures of human life symbolized together, and the mystery of its redemption, for the mazes of interwoven lines and changeful pictures, lead always...and sweet herbage growing forth from its feet." But its peculiar glory he enumerates in the following fine rhapsody, which we cannot resist extracting.... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1857 - 138 pages
...the pleasures of human life symbolised together, and the mystery of its redemption ; for the mazes of interwoven lines and changeful pictures lead always...and sweet herbage growing forth from its feet." But it is in describing the magnificent efiect of the exterior of St. Mark's, that the language of Mr.... | |
 | Rand - 1857 - 344 pages
...lifted and carved in every place and upon every stone ; sometimes with the serpent of eternity wrapt round it, sometimes with doves beneath its arms, and...forth from its feet ; but conspicuous most of all on the great rood that crosses the church before the altar, raised in bright blazonry against the shadow... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 pages
...every stone ; sometimes with the serpent of eternity wrapt around it, sometimes with doves against its arms, and sweet herbage growing forth from its feet ; but conspicuous most of all on the great rood that crosses the church before the altar, raised in bright blazonry against the shadow... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...upon every stone; sometimes with the serpent of eternity wrapt around it, sometimes with doves against its arms, and sweet herbage growing forth from its feet; but conspicuous most of all on the great rood that crosses the church before the altar, raised in bright blazonry against the shadow... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1867 - 458 pages
...lifted and carved in every place and upon every stone ; sometimes with the serpent of eternity wrapt round it, sometimes with doves beneath its arms, and...forth from its feet ; but conspicuous most of all on the great rood that crosses the church before the altar, raised in bright blazonry against the shadow... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1867 - 482 pages
...stone; sometimes with the serpent of eternity wrapt round it, sometimes with doves beneath its arras, and sweet herbage growing forth from its feet; but conspicuous most of all on the great rood that crosses the church before the altar, raised in bright blazonry against the shadow... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...lifted and carved in every place and upon every stone ; sometimes with the serpent of eternity wrapt round it, sometimes with doves beneath its arms, and...forth from its feet ; but conspicuous most of all on the great rood that crosses the church before the altar, raised in bright blazonry against the shadow... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1869 - 400 pages
...lifted and carved in every place, and upon every stone ; " sometimes with the serpent of eternity wrapt round it, sometimes with doves beneath its arms, and sweet herbage growing forth from its foot ; but conspicuous most of all on the great rood that crosses the church before the altar, raised... | |
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... crystal ; the passions and the pleasures of human life symbolized together, and the mystery of its redemption, for the mazes of interwoven lines and changeful pictures lead always at last to the Cross, lifted and carved in every place and upon every... 
