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IV. INFIDELITY. II. ROMAN RENAISSANCE. Ill
the palace of their ancient religion, their pride cast them forth
hopelessly to the pasture of the brute. From pride to infidelity, from infidelity to the unscrupulous and insatiable pursuit
of pleasure, and from this to irremediable degradation, the
transitions were swift, like the falling of a star. The great
palaces of the haughtiest nobles of Yenice were stayed, before
they had risen far above their foundations, by the blast of a
penal poverty; and the wild grass, on the unfinished fragments of their mighty shafts, waves at the tide-mark where
the power of the godless people first heard the "Hitherto
shaft thou come." And the regeneration in which they had
so vainly trusted,—the new birth and clear dawning, as they
thought it, of all art, all knowledge, and all hope,—became
to them as that dawn which Ezekiel saw on the hills of
Israel: " Behold the day ; behold, it is come. The rod hath
blossomed, pride hath budded, violence is risen up into a rod
of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor of their multitude ; let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for
wrath is upon all the multitude thereof."
| Title | The stones of Venice - 3 |
| Creator | Ruskin, John |
| Publisher | J. Wiley |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1889 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000125 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | IV. INFIDELITY. II. ROMAN RENAISSANCE. Ill the palace of their ancient religion, their pride cast them forth hopelessly to the pasture of the brute. From pride to infidelity, from infidelity to the unscrupulous and insatiable pursuit of pleasure, and from this to irremediable degradation, the transitions were swift, like the falling of a star. The great palaces of the haughtiest nobles of Yenice were stayed, before they had risen far above their foundations, by the blast of a penal poverty; and the wild grass, on the unfinished fragments of their mighty shafts, waves at the tide-mark where the power of the godless people first heard the "Hitherto shaft thou come." And the regeneration in which they had so vainly trusted,—the new birth and clear dawning, as they thought it, of all art, all knowledge, and all hope,—became to them as that dawn which Ezekiel saw on the hills of Israel: " Behold the day ; behold, it is come. The rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded, violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor of their multitude ; let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof." |
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