 Opposite in their character and mission, alike in their magnificence of energy, they came from the North and from the South, the glacier torrent and the lava stream : they met and contended over the wreck of the Roman empire ; and the very centre of the...  The Ecclesiologist - Page 2741851Full view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - Architecture - 1851 - 484 pages
...met and contended over the wreck of the Roman empire ; and the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause of both, the dead water of the opposite eddies,...and Arab. It is the central building of the world. § XXV. The reader will now begin to understand something of the importance of the study of the edifices... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1851 - 784 pages
...met and contended over the wreck of the Roman empire ; and the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause of both, the dead water of the opposite eddies,...with embayed fragments of the Roman wreck, is VENICE. Again, there is another imaginative and beautiful passage in which the same illustration is carried... | |
 | John Ruskin - Architecture - 1851 - 520 pages
...met and contended over the wreck of the Roman empire ; and the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause of both, the dead water of the opposite eddies, charged with embayed fragmerts of the Roman wreck, is VENICE. The Ducal palace of Venice contains the three elements in... | |
 | B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1853 - 714 pages
...met and contended over the wreck of the Roman Empire; and the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause of both, the dead water of the opposite eddies,...charged with embayed fragments of the Roman wreck, is VKXICE. " The Ducal palace of Venice, contains tho three elements in exactly equal proportions—the... | |
 | John Ruskin - Architecture - 1858 - 498 pages
...wreck of the Roman empire ; and the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause of both, the^dead water of the opposite eddies, charged with embayed...and Arab. It is the central building of the world. § xxv. The reader will now begin to understand something of the importance of the study of the edifices... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 496 pages
...met and contended over the wreck of the Roman empire ; and the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause of both, the dead water of the opposite eddies,...and Arab. It is the central building of the world. Now Venice, as she was once the most religious, was in her fall the most corrupt, of European states;... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...of the Roman empire; and the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause of both, the deadwater of the opposite eddies, charged with embayed fragments...and Arab. It is the central building of the world. Now Venice, as she was once the most religious, was in her fall the most corrupt, of European states;... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...met and contended over the wreck of the Roman empire; and the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause of both, the dead water of the opposite eddies,...Venice contains the three elements in exactly equal proportions—the Roman, Lombard, and Arab. It is the central building of the world. Now Venice, as... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 pages
...met and contended over the wreck of the Roman Empire ; and the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause of both, the dead water of the opposite eddies,...and Arab. It is the central building of the world. From " The Sana of renics." THE EXECUTION OF ANDRE. THE procession wound slowly up a moderately-rising... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 586 pages
...met and contended over the wreck of the Roman Empire ; and the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause of both, the dead water of the opposite eddies,...charged with embayed fragments of the Roman wreck, is VEMCE. The Ducal Palace of Venice contains the three elements in exactly equal proportions — the... | |
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