 But the leaves of the herbage at our feet take all kinds of strange shapes, as if to invite us to examine them. Starshaped, heart-shaped, spear-shaped, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated, sinuated; in whorls, in tufts, in spires,...  Flowers, Fruits and Leaves - Página 98por Sir John Lubbock - 1886 - 147 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 576 páginas
...trees take approximately simple forms, slightly monotonous. They are intended to be seen in mass. But the leaves of the herbage at our feet take all kinds...watchfulness, and take delight in outstripping our wonder. § 11. Secondly, observe, their forms are such as will not be visibly injured by crushing. Their complexity... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 504 páginas
...Star-shaped, heart-shaped, spear-shaped, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated, sinuatcd ; in whorls, in tufts, in spires, in wreaths endlessly...watchfulness, and take delight in outstripping our wonder. § 11. Secondly, observe, their forms are such as will not be visibly injured by crushing. Their complexity... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 578 páginas
...trees take approximately simple forms, slightly monotonous. They are intended to be seen in mass. But the leaves of the herbage at our feet take all kinds...watchfulness, and take delight in outstripping our wonder. § 11. Secondly, observe, their forms are such as will not be visibly injured by crushing. Their complexity... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1892 - 492 páginas
...utility are applicable. Their forms are almost infinitely varied. To quote Ruskin's vivid words, they " take all kinds of strange shapes, as if to invite...perpetually to tempt our watchfulness and take delight in outstepping our wonder." But besides these differences of mere form, there are many others : of structure,... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1893 - 750 páginas
...deceptive, fantastic, never the same from foot1890.] on the Shapes of Leaves and Cotyledons. 103 stalk to blossom, they seem perpetually to tempt our watchfulness,...variety, this inexhaustible treasury of beautiful torms ? Does it result from some innate tendency of each species ? Is it intentionally designed to... | |
 | Sir Patrick Geddes - 1893 - 232 páginas
...in spires, in wreaths, endlessly expressive, deceptive, fantastic, never the same from foot of stalk to blossom, they seem perpetually to tempt our watchfulness and take delight in outstripping our wonder." We do not propose to describe these different forms of leaves, nor to introduce the elaborate nomenclature... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 562 páginas
...trees take approximately simple forms, slightly monotonous. They are intended to be seen in mass. But the leaves of the herbage at our feet take all kinds...watchfulness, and take delight in outstripping our wonder. § 11. Secondly, observe, their forms are such as will not be visibly injured by crushing. Their complexity... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 506 páginas
...the leaves of the herbage at our feet take all kinds of strange shapes, as if to invite us FiG 72. to examine them. Star-shaped, heart-shaped, spear-shaped,...watchfulness, and take delight in outstripping our wonder. LEAVES MOTIONLESS. be visibly injured by crushing. Their complexity is already disordered : jugs and... | |
 | 1896 - 92 páginas
...aged wood, Offer one hymn— thrice happy if it find Acceptance in His ear. LEAVES. The leaves of tbe herbage at our feet take all kinds of strange shapes,...watchfulness and take delight in outstripping our wonder. — Ruskin. INFLUENCE OF NATURE. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains,... | |
 | 1896 - 360 páginas
...Oner one hymn— thrice happy if it find Acceptance in Ilia ear. A * * * 4 LEAVES. The leaves of tbe herbage at our feet take all kinds of strange shapes,...perpetually to tempt our watchfulness and take delight iu outstripping our wonder. — Ruekin. INFLUENCE OF NATURE. Therefore am I atill A lover of the meadows... | |
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