 ... of these ? Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace of ruin — laying quiet finger on the trembling stones...  Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - Страница 134написао/ла Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - 1887Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 506 страница
...last, in their luxuriance, are deep, and rich as herbage, yet both, for the most part, humblest of green things that live), how of these ? Meek creatures...stones, to teach them rest. No words that I know of will Bay what these mosses are ; none are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough. How is... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 страница
...hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin, laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to tcacd them rest No words that I know of will say what these mosses are ; none are delicate enough ;... | |
 | 1874 - 968 страница
...kindly and tender beauty over Nature's slow decay. Of this humble tribe of plants Ruskin writes : — " Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling...delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough. . . . They will not be gathered like the flowers for chaplet or love-token, but of these the wild bird... | |
 | Thomas George Bonney - 1868 - 388 страница
...and effect upon the scenery I feel sure that I cannot do better than again quote Mr. Ruskin's words1. "We have found beauty in the tree yielding fruit and...finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest. No 1 Modern Painters, Part VI. Chap. X. (Vol. vp 102). words, that I know of, will say what these mosses... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 372 страница
...hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin, — laying quiet finger...are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enousrh. How is one to tell of the rounded bosses O of furred and beaming green, — the starred divisions... | |
 | Fanny Aikin- Kortright - 1870 - 568 страница
...author, not unknown to fame as a writer of melodious prose, addresses these plants too, and exclaims : " Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling...finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest." It is more particularly to the mosses that reference is here made, I imagine, and really there is something... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 страница
...creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace of ruin,—laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them...words, that I know of, will say what these mosses * Of course a lichen has seeds just as other plants have, but not effectually or visibly for man. are.... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 страница
...creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace of ruin,—laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them...words, that I know of, will say what these mosses arc. None are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough. How is one to tell of the rounded... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1875 - 200 страница
...moveless as they, the rubied crests of Alpine rose flash in the low rays of morning. 59. MOSSES. — Meek creatures! the first mercy of the earth, veiling...know of, will say what these mosses are. None are deliate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough. How is one to tell of the rounded bosses of... | |
 | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe - 1878 - 316 страница
...of pity covering with strange and tender honour the sacred disgrace of ruin, lay ing quiet fingers on the trembling stones to teach them rest. No words...delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough. . . They will not be gathered lik e the flowers for chaplet or love-token; but of these the wild bird... | |
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