 ... into fitful brightness and glossy traverses of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace ? They will not be gathered like the flowers, for chaplet, or love-token; but of these the wild bird will...  Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin - Seite 74von John Ruskin - 1871 - 440 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 506 Seiten
...rock spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass — the traceries of intricate silver and fringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every...wild bird will make its nest and the wearied child its pillow. And, as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all other service... | |
 | 1873 - 500 Seiten
...as though the Rock spirits could spin porphyry ; the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every...traverses of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive ; framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace. They will not be gathered like the flowers for chaplet... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 556 Seiten
...Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass, — the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every...not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet or love-token; but of these the wild bird will make its nest, and the wearied child his pillow. And, as... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1888 - 620 Seiten
...Bock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass — the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every...not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet or love-token i but of these the wild bird will make his nest, and the wearied child his pillow. " And,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 452 Seiten
...Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass, — the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every...subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest oifices of grace. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet or love-token ; but of these... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1861 - 320 Seiten
...rock spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass ; the traceries of intricate silver and fringes of amber, lustrous arborescent, burnished through every...will not be gathered like the flowers, for chaplet or love-token ; but of these the wild-bird will make its nest, and the wearied child its pillow. And as... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 Seiten
...traceries of in trícate sil ver and fringes of amber, lustrous, aborescent, burnished through every über into fitful brightness, and glossy traverses of silken...not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet or love-token ; but of these the wild bird will make its nest, and the wearied child its pillow. "And,... | |
 | 1861 - 588 Seiten
...fitfuL¿righlness and glossy travesty of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for sweetest offices of grace. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet or love-token, but the wild bird will make his nest of them, and the weary child his pillow. And as the... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - 1862 - 310 Seiten
...rock spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass, the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every...will not be gathered like the flowers for chaplet or love-token ; but of these the wild bird will make its nest and the wearied child his pillow." And now,... | |
 | Margaret Plues - 1864 - 376 Seiten
...spirit, and the poetic words of Ruskin recurred to my mind. Speaking of mosses and lichens, he says, "They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for...of these the wild bird will make its nest, and the tired child his pillow. And as the earth's first mercy, so are they its last gift to us. When all farther... | |
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