 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 506 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 1873 - 500 pages
...palette are too glowing, you need only look around you. " ' No words of which I know will say what mosses are ; none are delicate enough, none perfect...to tell of the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green ; the starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine filmed as though the Rock spirits could spin porphyry... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 556 pages
...creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace of rum, — laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them...enough, none rich enough. How is one to tell of the 1 The reader must remember always that my work is concerning the aspects of things only. Of course,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 452 pages
...creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin, — laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them...to tell of the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green, — the starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine-filmed, as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1888 - 620 pages
...of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks. No words that I know of will say what mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect...to tell of the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green — the starred divisions of nibied bloom, fine-filmed, as if the Bock Spirits could spin porphyry... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1861 - 320 pages
...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...to tell of the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green, the starred divisions of rubied bloom, finefilmed as if the rock spirits could spin porphyry... | |
 | 1861 - 588 pages
...covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin, laying a quiet finger on the tumbling stones, to teach them rest. No words that I know of,...to tell of the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green, the starred divisions of rubied bloom, the traceries of intricate silver and fringes of amber,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 pages
...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...to tell of the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green — the starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine-filmed, as if the rock spirits could spin porphyry... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - 1862 - 310 pages
...honour the scarred disgrace of ruin, laying quiet fingers on the trembling stones to teach them to rest. No words that I know of will say what these...to tell of the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green, the starred divisions of rubied bloom, finefilmed, as if the rock spirits could spin porphyry... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1865 - 502 pages
...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...to tell of the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green, — the starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine-filmed, as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry... | |
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... quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest. No words, that I know of, will say what these mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough. 
