 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 556 страница
...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave. § 25. Yet as in one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honoured of the earth-children.... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1888 - 620 страница
...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave. "Yet aa in one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honoured of the earth-children. Unfading... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 452 страница
...the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave. § 25. Yet as in one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honored of the earth-children. Unfading, as motionless, the worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes... | |
 | 1861 - 634 страница
...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts, for a time, but these do service forever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's chamber,...one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honored of the earth-children. Unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not. Strong in lowliness,... | |
 | 1861 - 636 страница
...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts, for a time, but these do service forever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's chamber,...one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honored of the earth-children. Unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not. Strong in lowliness,... | |
 | 1861 - 588 страница
...done their parts for a time, but these do service forever. Trees for the builder's yard, flow. ITS for the bride's chamber, corn for the granary, moss...one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honored of the earth-children. Unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 страница
...time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's chamber, com for the granary, moss for the grave. Yet as, in one...sense, the humblest, in another they are the most honored of the earth-children. Unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not. and the autumn wastes... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1861 - 384 страница
...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses have done their parts for a time ; but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave." CHAPTER III. FRESH-WATER ALG.E. " Books in the nmning brooks." " And plants of fibres fine as silkworm's... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1866 - 374 страница
...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's chamber,...one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honored of the earth-children. Unfading, as motionless, the worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes... | |
 | 1874 - 968 страница
...blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave." And as we wander on through the bright, yet perhaps bleak, March day, we say, with a happy longing... | |
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When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and grey lichen take up their watch by the headstone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the... 
