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...Goth and the Arab, different in character and mission, alike in magnificence and energy, they came from the north and the south, the glacier torrent and the lava stream: they met and contended over the wreck of the Roman Empire; and the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause of both, the dead water of the opposite eddies, charged with embayed fragments of the Roman wreck, is Venice." - Ruskin's Stones of Venice...
...While a torrent of abuse is poured out upon us by such degraded and disgraceful sheets as the Yale Record, whose only duty, it appears, is to scandalize and drag down the pure and good, how cheering it is to receive letters like that from which we make the following extract...
...Frost-King cast a stillness o'er the torrent and the river...
Gold in every torrent pours...
Torn by a swirling torrent, never fringed...