 ... 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 make its nest, and the wearied...  Art and Life: A Ruskin Anthology - Página 475por John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 593 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 506 páginas
...sweetest offices of grace. They 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 the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all other service... | |
 | 1873 - 500 páginas
...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 or love-token, but of them the bird will make her nest, and the wearied child his pillow. . . . " ' Yet as in one sense the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 442 páginas
...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...is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and grey lichen take up their watch by the head-stone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses,... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1888 - 620 páginas
...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 i but of these the wild bird will make his nest, and the wearied child his pillow. " And, as the earth's... | |
 | 1861 - 636 páginas
...their duty there, all alone in their unnoticed isolation : " Lichen and mosses — how of these ? . . . They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet...is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and grey lichen take up their watch by the head-stone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses,... | |
 | 1861 - 634 páginas
...duty there, all alone in their unnoticed isolation : '* Lichen and mosses — how of these ? . . . They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet...is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and grey lichen take up their watch by the head-stone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses,... | |
 | 1861 - 634 páginas
...their duty there, all alone in their unnoticed isolation : " Lichen and mosses — how of these ? . . . They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet...When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the\oft mosses and grey lichen take up their watch by the head-stone. The woods, the blossoms, the... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1861 - 320 páginas
...for chaplet or love-token ; but of these the wild-bird will make its nest, and the wearied child its pillow. And as the earth's first mercy, so they are...service is vain from plant and tree, the soft mosses and grey lichens take up their watch by the headstone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1861 - 384 páginas
...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 make its nest, and the wearied child its pillow. And as the earth's first mercy, so... | |
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