 The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength; the plains and the lower hills are the repose and the effortless motion of the frame, when its muscles...  Modern Painters - Page 267by John Ruskin - 1857Full view - About this book
 | England - 1843 - 832 pages
...settled the matter of the sky, our anthor takes the earth in hand, and tosses it ahout like a Titan. " The spirit of the hills is action, that of the lowlands, repose ; and hetween these there is to he found every variety of motion and of rest, from the inactive plain, sleeping... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1860 - 722 pages
...energy, full of expression, passion, and strength ; the plains and the lower hills are the repose and effortless motion of the frame when its muscles lie...concealed beneath the lines of its beauty, yet ruling these lines in their every undulation. This is the first grand principle of the truth of earth. The... | |
 | 1844 - 532 pages
...mountain, brought out with fierce and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength; the plains and the lower hills are the repose and the...the truth of the earth. The spirit of the hills is action—that of the lowlands, repose ; and between these there is to be found every variety of motion... | |
 | 1847 - 574 pages
...effortless motion of the frariie, whfen its muscles lie dormant and concealed berieath the liaes tif 'its beauty, yet ruling those lines in their every...principle of the truth of the earth. The spirit of the bills is action ; that of the lowlands, repose ; and between these there is to be found every variety... | |
 | Universalism - 1852 - 572 pages
...all truths— as beautiful to the painter as they are essential. The spirit of the lulls is actjon ; that of the lowlands repose; and between these there is to be found every variety of motion and rest; from the inactive plain sleeping like the firmament, with cities for stars, to the fiery peaks,... | |
 | 1856 - 780 pages
...brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion and strength. The plains and lower hills are the repose and the effortless motion of the frame when tire muscles lie dormant and concealed beneath its lines of beauty, yet ruling those lines in their... | |
 | Edward Young - Pre-Raphaelitism - 1857 - 370 pages
...Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth what violent muscular action is to the body of man ; the plains and the lower hills are the repose and the effortless motion of the frame. This then is the first grand principle of the truths of the earth. The spirit of the hills is action^... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1857 - 586 pages
...brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength; tho plains and lower hills are the repose, and the effortless motion of the frame, when its muscles Ho dormant and concealed beneath the lines of its beauty, yet ruling those lines In their every ondulation.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1857 - 612 pages
...force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength ; the plains and lower hitb are the repose, and the effortless motion of the frame, when Its musclée lie dormant and concealed beneath the lines of Its beauty, yet ruling those linee in their... | |
 | George Peck - Wyoming Massacre, 1778 - 1858 - 440 pages
...brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength ; the plains and lower hills are the repose and the effortless motion...lines of its beauty, yet ruling those lines in their eTjpry undulation. This, then, is the first grand principle of the truth of the earth. The spirit of... | |
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