 | 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
...yet ruling these lines in their every undulation. This is the first grand principle of the truth of earth. The spirit of the hills is action, that of the lowlands repose ; and between these is to bo found every variety of motion and of rest, from the inactive plain, sleeping like the firmament... | |
 | 1844 - 532 pages
...muscles lie dormant and concealed beneath the lines of its beauty, yet ruling those lines in their every undulation. This, then, is the first grand principle...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
...lie dormant and concealed berieath the liaes tif 'its beauty, yet ruling those lines in their every undulation. This, then, is the first grand 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
...muscles lie dormant and concealed beneath its lines of beauty, yet ruling those lines in their every undulation. This, then, is the first grand principle...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,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1857 - 500 pages
...muscles lie dormant and concealed beneath the lines of its beauty, yet ruling those lines in their every undulation. This, then, is the first grand principle...stars, to the fiery peaks, which, with heaving bosoms arid exulting limbs, with the clouds drifting like hair from their bright foreheads, lift up their... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1857 - 612 pages
...musclée lie dormant and concealed beneath the lines of Its beauty, yet ruling those linee in their every undulation. This, then, is the first grand principle...inactive plain, sleeping like the firmament, with eitlee for stars, to the fiery peaks, which, with heaving bosoms and exulting limbs, with the clouds... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1857 - 586 pages
...earth. Tho spirit of the bills is action — that of tho lowlands repose; and between these there b to be found every variety of motion and of rest, from...plain, sleeping like the firmament, with cities for atora, to the flery peaks, which, with heaving bosoms and exulting limbs, with the clouds drifting... | |
 | Edward Young - Pre-Raphaelitism - 1857 - 370 pages
...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^ that of the lowlands repose." (Ibid. § 3.) I will not ask questions of the context ; yet, since we are upon a judicial process,... | |
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The spirit of the hills is action ; that of the lowlands, repose ; and between these there is to be found every variety of motion and of rest ; from ttye inactive plain sleeping like the firmament, with cities for stars, to the fiery peaks, which, with... 
