Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent, [Eng.] : G. Allen · leaf 131
made majestic, than the self-contemplating and self-contented Greek. I know thatthey are barbaric in comparison; but there is a powerin their barbarism of sterner tone, a power not sophis-tic nor penetrative, but embracing and mysterious ; apower faithful more than thoughtful, which conceivedand… … THE LAMP OF POWER. 89 of finite form. It could not bury itself in acanthus leaves. Its imagery was taken from the shadows of the storms and hills, and had fellowship with the night and day of the earth itself XVI. I have endeavoured to give some idea of one of thehollow balls of stone which,…
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