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| 1847 - 574 pages
...dragged the blanket off the trestle, the total powerkssness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the...the spectacles marking the place where the Bible was Iftit closed, indicating how lonely has been the life — how unmatched the departure ef him who is... | |
| English literature - 1847 - 584 pages
...of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the eye in it* utter hopelessness, the rigidity of repose which marks...indicating how lonely has been the life — how unwatched Hie departure of him who is now laid solitary in his sleep ; — these are all thoughts — thoughts... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1856 - 596 pages
...the eye in its utter hopelessness, the rigidity of repose that marks that there has been no motion or change in the trance of agony since the last blow...where the Bible was last closed, indicating how lonely had beeu the life, how unwatched the departure of him who is now laid solitary in his sleep, — these... | |
| John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...dragged the blanket off the trestle, the total powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the...was last closed, indicating how lonely has been the life—how unwatched the departure of him who is now laid solitary in his sleep ;—these are all thoughts—... | |
| John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1873 - 578 pages
...dragged the blanket off the trestle, the total powerlessness of the head laid close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the...closed, indicating how lonely has been the life — how umvatched the departure of him who is now laid solitary in his sleep ; — these are all thoughts —... | |
| Sarah Tytler - Painters - 1876 - 426 pages
...been no motion nor change in the trance of agony since the last blow was struck on the coffin lid, the quietness and gloom of the chamber, the spectacles...was last closed, indicating how lonely has been the life—how unwatched the departure of him who is now laid solitary in his sleep ; these are all thoughts—thoughts... | |
| John Ruskin - 1887 - 516 pages
...dragged the blanket off the trestle, the total powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the...closed, indicating how lonely has been the life — how anwatched the departure of him who is now laid solitary in his sleep ; — these are all thoughts—... | |
| John Ruskin - English essays - 1887 - 504 pages
...fixed and tearful fall of the eye in its utter hopelessness, the rigidity of repose which marks thai there has been no motion nor change in the trance...closed, indicating how lonely has been the life — how unwatchcd the departure, of him who is now laid solitary in his sleep ; these are all thoughts —... | |
| John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1894 - 360 pages
...dragged the blanket off the trestle, the total powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the...closed, indicating how lonely has been the life — how un watched the departure of him who is now laid solitary in his sleep ; — these are all thoughts... | |
| Gertrude Buck, Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - English language - 1899 - 312 pages
...dragged the blanket off the trestle; the total powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds; the fixed and tearful fall of the...the departure of him who is now laid solitary in his sleep—these are all thoughts, thoughts by which the picture is separated at once from hundreds of... | |
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