 | Marshall Mather - 1883 - 154 Seiten
...upon the dark mould, or scorching dust." Or, again, take the following description of a stone :—" A stone, when it is examined, will be found a mountain...taking moss for forests, and grains of crystal for craggs, the surface of a stone, in by far the plurality of instances, is more interesting than the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1885 - 504 Seiten
...and there is bread of thought in it, more than in any other lowly feature of all the landscape. § 7. For a stone, when it is examined, will be found a...grains of crystal for crags, the surface of a stone, in by far the plurality of instances, is more interesting than the surface of an ordinary hill ; more... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 504 Seiten
...and there is bread of thought in it, more than in any other lowly feature of all the landscape. § 7. For a stone, when it is examined, will be found a...grains of crystal for crags, the surface of a stone, in by far the plurality of instances, is more interesting than the surface of an ordinary hill ; more... | |
 | Paul Bercy - 1894 - 186 Seiten
...The fineness of Nature's work is so great, that, into a single block, a foot or two in diameter 7 , she can compress as many changes of form and structure,...grains of crystal for crags, the surface of a stone, in by far the plurality of instances s , is more interesting than the surface of an ordinary hill; more... | |
 | Paul Bercy - 1894 - 172 Seiten
...miniature. The fineness of Nature's work is so groat, that, into a single block, a foot or two in diameter7, she can compress as many changes of form and structure,...grains of crystal for crags, the surface of a stone, in by far the plurality of instances8, is more interesting than the surface of an ordinary hiil ; more... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 578 Seiten
...The fineness of Nature's work is so great, that, into a single block, a foot or two in di aineter, she can compress as many changes of form and structure, on a small scale, as she needs for her mouu a S _ i >• a o 99 O X a fi THE HEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY! MTVft. LCHM TILBEN FOUNDATION! tains... | |
 | Sir Edwin Arnold - 1896 - 452 Seiten
...the unfatherly gift. And yet, do but give it some reverence and watchfulness, and there is breadth of thought in it, more than in any other lowly feature...grains of crystal for crags, the surface of a stone, in by far the plurality of instances, is more interesting than the surface of an ordinary hill, more fantastic... | |
 | William Thomas Price - 1901 - 652 Seiten
...C'reator's work is so exquisite that in a single stone a foot or more in diameter may be compressd as many changes of form and structure on a small scale as have been needed for mountains on a large-scale. When moss is taken for forests, grains of chrstal... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1904 - 706 Seiten
...all the landscape. § 7. For a stone, when it is examined, will be found a mountain in miniature.1 The fineness of Nature's work is so great, that into...grains of crystal for crags, the surface of a stone, in by far the plurality of instances, is more interesting than the surface of an ordinary hill; more fantastic... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1904 - 202 Seiten
...nor food, nor good of any kind; nothing but symbolism of the hard heart, and the unfatherly gift. And yet, do but give it some reverence and watchfulness,...changes of form and structure, on a small scale, as shs needs for her mountains on a large one; and taking moss for forests, and grains of crystal for... | |
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For a stone, when it is examined, will be found a mountain in miniature. The fineness of Nature's work is so great that into a single block, a foot or two in diameter, she can compress as many changes of form and structure, on a small scale, as she needs... 
