 Meek creatures! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with 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 teach them...  The home naturalist - Seite 115von Harland Coultas - 1877Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 506 Seiten
...both, for the most part, humblest of green things that live), how of these ? Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its...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 Ruskin - 1860 - 556 Seiten
...the most part humblest of the green things that live), — how of these ? Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its...strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace of rum, — laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest. No words, that I know of,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 442 Seiten
...for the most part humblest of the green things that live),—how of these ? Meek creatures! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its...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 rest.... | |
 | 1861 - 588 Seiten
...yet are for the most part of the humblest of the green things that live. Meek creatures, the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its...creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin, laying a quiet finger on the tumbling stones, to teach them rest.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 Seiten
...humblest of green things that live,) how of these? Meek creatures! the first mercy of the earth, vailing with 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... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - 1862 - 310 Seiten
...for the most part humblest of the green things that live) how of these ? Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its...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... | |
 | 1874 - 968 Seiten
...Nature's slow decay. Of this humble tribe of plants Ruskin writes : — " Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its...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... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1866 - 374 Seiten
...for the most part humblest of the green things that live),—how of these ? Meek creatures! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its...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 rest.... | |
 | Thomas George Bonney - 1868 - 388 Seiten
...the most part humblest of the green things that live), — how of these? Meek creatures! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its...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 Seiten
...the most part humblest of the green things that live), — how of these ? Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its...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... | |
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