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THE QUARRY. 35
lectual palsy, which has not only incapacitated her from any
further use of the arts which once were her ministers, but has
made her worship the shame of its own shrines, and her worshippers their destroyers. Come, then, if truths such as these
are worth our thoughts; come, and let us know, before we
enter the streets of the Sea city, whether we are indeed to submit ourselves to their undistinguished enchantment, and to
look upon the last changes which were wrought on the lifted
forms of her palaces, as we should on the capricious towering
of summer clouds in the sunset, ere they sank into the deep of
night; or whether, rather, we shall not behold in the brightness of their accumulated marble, pages on which the sentence
of her luxury was to be written until the waves should efface
it, as they fulfilled—" God has numbered thy kingdom, and
finished it."
| Title | The stones of Venice - 1 |
| Creator | Ruskin, John |
| Publisher | J. Wiley |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1889 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000058 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | THE QUARRY. 35 lectual palsy, which has not only incapacitated her from any further use of the arts which once were her ministers, but has made her worship the shame of its own shrines, and her worshippers their destroyers. Come, then, if truths such as these are worth our thoughts; come, and let us know, before we enter the streets of the Sea city, whether we are indeed to submit ourselves to their undistinguished enchantment, and to look upon the last changes which were wrought on the lifted forms of her palaces, as we should on the capricious towering of summer clouds in the sunset, ere they sank into the deep of night; or whether, rather, we shall not behold in the brightness of their accumulated marble, pages on which the sentence of her luxury was to be written until the waves should efface it, as they fulfilled—" God has numbered thy kingdom, and finished it." |
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