 Statues still whiter seemed in this mysterious gloom to be alive ; groups of young maidens, in light flowing robes, advanced noiselessly, like beautiful spirits of gladness. I seemed to be gazing on ancient Greek life, to comprehend the delicacy of their...  Italy: Rome and Naples; Florence and Venice - Pagina 16door Hippolyte Taine - 1871Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1868 - 796 pagina’s
...sensations, to find a never-ending study in the harmony of these slender forms and faded tints ; color and luminousness no longer seemed requisite. I was...is a Greek colony, and the more one sees the more does he recognize that the taste and spirit of a people assume the characteristics of its landscape... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1867 - 382 pagina’s
...until, finally, the lightest tint of mauve, or the corolla of a flower, is less exquisite. The sky is now serene, and the calm sea becomes a sea of azure....is a Greek colony, and the more one sees the more does he recognise that the taste and spirit of a people assume the characteristics of its landscape... | |
 | 1868 - 1038 pagina’s
...sensations, to find a never-ending study in the harmony of these slender forms and faded tints — color and luminousness no longer seemed requisite. I was...brow, chaste and beautiful, walking pleasantly with a eage companion of his own years, among poplars and the flowering smilax.' A mind like this, endowed... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1872 - 390 pagina’s
...with their web of light branches, apparently communicating itself to them. They did not appear to he dead or torpid as with us, but seemed to be dozing,...that the taste and the mind of a people assume the characteristies of its landscape and of its climate. Towards eight o'clock the breeze had. died away.... | |
 | 1868 - 860 pagina’s
...sensations, to find a never-ending study in the harmony of these slender forms and faded tints ; color and luminousness no longer seemed requisite. I was...is a Greek colony, and the more one sees the more does he recognize that the taste and spirit of a people assume the characteristics of its landscape... | |
 | 1868 - 860 pagina’s
...sensations, to find a never-ending study in the harmony of these slender forms and faded tints ; color and luminousness no longer seemed requisite. I was...poplars and the flowering smilax. Naples is a Greek cplony, and the more one sees the more does he recognize that the taste and spirit of a people assume... | |
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