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" Between that grim cathedral of England and this, what an interval! There is a type of it in the very birds that haunt them; for instead of the restless crowd, hoarse-voiced and sablewinged, drifting on the bleak upper air, the St. Mark's porches are full... "
The Forms of Prose Literature - Page 492
by John Hays Gardiner - 1900 - 498 pages
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The North British Review, Volumes 20-21

1854 - 686 pages
...porches are full of doves, that nestle among th marble foliage, and mingle the soft iridescence o tln-ir living plumes, changing at every motion with the tints, hardly less lovely, that have stoo< unchanged for seven hundred years." "We now proceed to give our readers th heads of a piece of...
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The Stones of Venice: The sea-stories

John Ruskin - 1853 - 456 pages
...that grim cathedral of England and this, what an interval ! There is a type of it in the very birds that haunt them ; for, instead of the restless crowd,...with the tints, hardly less lovely, that have stood unchaflged for seven hundred years. § Xv. And what effect has this splendour on those who pass beneath...
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Eclectic and Congregational Review

1853 - 1042 pages
...that grim cathedral of England and this, what an interval ! There is a type of it in the very birds that haunt them ; for instead of the restless crowd;...their living plumes, changing at every motion, with tints, hardly less lovely, that have stood unchanged for seven hundred years." — p. 67. Scattered...
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The Ecclesiologist, Volume 11

1853 - 512 pages
...instead of the restless crow, hoarse-voiced and sable-winged, drifting on the bleak upper air, the S. Mark's porches are full of doves, that nestle among...that have stood unchanged for seven hundred years." — p. 66. And the first glimpse of the interior of S. Mark's must also be quoted : " Through the heavy...
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The Ecclesiologist

Ecclesiological society - 1853 - 942 pages
...instead of the restless crow, hoarse-voiced and sable-winged, drifting on the bleak upper air, the S. Mark's porches are full of doves, that nestle among...lovely, that have stood unchanged for seven hundred years."—p. 66. And the first glimpse of the interior of S. Mark's must also be quoted : " Through...
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The Alps, Switzerland, and the North of Italy

Charles Williams - 1854 - 662 pages
...that grim cathedral of England and this what an interval ! There is a type of it in the very birds that haunt them ; for instead of the restless crowd,...that have stood unchanged for seven hundred years." ' The Piazza is almost the only place in which the population can assemble for the purpose of public...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 100

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1854 - 520 pages
...that grim cathedral of England and this, what an interval ! There is a type of it in the very birds that haunt them ; for, instead of the restless crowd,...that have stood unchanged for seven hundred years." But here, in dogged submission to limits no longer to be tampered with, we must quit the company of...
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The North British review

1854 - 632 pages
...that grim cathedral of England and this, what an interval ! There is a type of it in the very birds that haunt them ; for instead of the restless crowd,...that have stood unchanged for seven hundred years." We now proceed to give our readers the heads of a piece of artistical analysis, which, as we have already...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 100

1854 - 524 pages
...that grim cathedral of England and this, what an interval ! There is a type of it in the very birds that haunt them ; for, instead of the restless crowd,...plumes, changing at every motion, with the tints, hardly leas lovely, that have stood unchanged for seven hundred years." But here, in dogged submission to...
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Excelsior: Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature, Volumes 5-6

James Hamilton - 1856 - 984 pages
...my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs." (ch. ii. 14.) * " The St. Mark's porches are full of doves that nestle...that have stood unchanged for seven hundred years." — RUSKIN'S Stonet of Venice, p. 66. The species is very widely spread along the European shores,...
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