| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1858 - 336 Seiten
...better days ; but useful still, going through its own daily work, as some old fisherman beaten gray by storm, yet drawing his daily nets : so it stands,...gathering human souls together underneath it; the sound of * L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution. its bells for prayer still rolling through its rents, and the gray... | |
| John Ruskin - 1858 - 482 Seiten
...I will do Ghirlandajo more justice hereafter. f Seven Lamps of Architecture, chap. vi. § 12. erman beaten grey by storm, yet drawing his daily nets :...complaint about its past youth, in blanched and meagre massivenese and serviceableness, gathering human souls together underneath it ; the sound of its bells... | |
| Graduated series - 1859 - 462 Seiten
...instance, I cannot find words to express the intense pleasure I have always in first finding myself, after some prolonged stay in England, at the foot...gathering human souls together underneath it ; the sounds of its bells for prayer still rolling through its rents ; and the grey peak of it seen far across... | |
| John Ruskin - 1875 - 200 Seiten
...what any one thinks or fesls about it, putting forth no claim, having no beauty, nor desireableness, pride, nor grace; yet neither asking for pity; not,...past youth, in blanched and meagre massiveness and serviccableness, gathering human souls together underneath it; the sound of its bells for prayer still... | |
| John Ruskin - 1887 - 504 Seiten
...unsightliness of it ; the record of its years written so visibly, yet without sign of weakness and decay ; its stern wasteness and gloom, eaten away...past youth, in blanched and meagre massiveness and semceableness, gathering human souls together underneath It; the sound of its bells for prayer still... | |
| John Ruskin - 1891 - 416 Seiten
...better days ; but useful still, going through its own daily work, — as some old fisherman beaten gray by storm, yet drawing his daily nets : so it stands,...complaint about its past youth, in blanched and meagre massiveuess aud serviceableness, gathering human souls together underneath it; the sound of its bells... | |
| 1893 - 1054 Seiten
...useless and piteous, feebly or foiidly garrulous of letter days ; but useful still, going through i U own daily work, as some old fisherman, beaten grey...daily nets. So it stands, with no complaint about ite past youth, in blanched and massive ineagrenes* and serviceableneas, gathering human souls together... | |
| John Ruskin - 1904 - 706 Seiten
...carelessness of what any one thinks or feels about it, putting forth no claim, having no beauty or desirableness, pride, nor grace ; yet neither asking...complaint about its past youth, in blanched and meagre inassiveness and serviceableness, gathering human souls together underneath it; the sound of its bells... | |
| 1904 - 732 Seiten
...better days; but useful still. going through its own daily work—as some old fisherman, beaten gray by storm, yet drawing his daily nets: so it stands,...past youth, in blanched and meagre massiveness and serviccahlcncss, gathering human souls together underneath it; the sound of its bells for prayer still... | |
| 1895 - 1140 Seiten
...desirableness, pride, nor grace ; yet neither asking for pity ; not, as ruins are, useless and piteous, leebly or fondly garrulous of better days ; but useful still,...its past youth, in blanched and meagre massiveness arid serviceableness, gathering human souls together underneath it ; the sound of its bells for prayer... | |
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