. The works of John Ruskin . hechange, I say, of that blind vibration into the glory of the Sun and Moonfor human eyes: so making possible the communication out of the un-fathomable truth of that portion of truth which is good for us, andanimating to us, and is set to rule over the day and over the night ofour joy and our sorrow. [Psalms xciv. 9.] ^ [Minos, 314 A: see Vol. XX. p. 223, and compare Vol. XXII. p. » [Vol. XXII. p. 194.] * 28 THE STORM-CLOUD 25. Returning now to our subject at the point fromwhich I permitted myself, I trust not without your pardon,to diverge; you may incident
. The works of John Ruskin . hechange, I say, of that blind vibration into the glory of the Sun and Moonfor human eyes: so making possible the communication out of the un-fathomable truth of that portion of truth which is good for us, andanimating to us, and is set to rule over the day and over the night ofour joy and our sorrow. [Psalms xciv. 9.] ^ [Minos, 314 A: see Vol. XX. p. 223, and compare Vol. XXII. p. » [Vol. XXII. p. 194.] * 28 THE STORM-CLOUD 25. Returning now to our subject at the point fromwhich I permitted myself, I trust not without your pardon,to diverge; you may incidentally, but carefully, observe,that the effect of such a sky as that represented in thesecond diagram, so far as it can be abstracted or conveyedby painting at all, implies the total absence of any pervad-ing warmth of tint, such as artists usually call tint must be the purest possible, and above all thewhite. Partly, lest you should think, from my treatmentof these two phases of effect, that I am insensible to the. Fig. 3 Twilight between Verona and Brescia, 1845 quality of tone,—and partly to complete the representationof states of weather undefiled by plague-cloud, yet capableof the most solemn dignity in saddening colour, I showyou, Diagram 8, the record of an autumn twilight of theyear 1845,—sketched while I was changing horses betweenVerona and Brescia. The distant sky in this drawing isin the glowing calm which is always taken by the greatItalian painters for the background of their sacred pictures;a broad field of cloud is advancing upon it overhead, andmeeting others enlarging in the distance; these are rain-clouds, which will certainly close over the clear sky, andbring on rain before midnight: but there is no power inthem to pollute the sky beyond and above them: they do LECTURE I 29 not darken the air, nor defile it, nor in any way minglewith it; their edges are burnished by the sun like theedges of golden shields, and their advancing march is asdelibe
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