 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 506 Seiten
...and rich as herbage, yet 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 dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the .scarred disgrace... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 556 Seiten
...as herbage, yet both 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 dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1888 - 620 Seiten
...five or sis ; but in the end we should, we think, be forced to settle upon ' Moss and Lichens ' : " Meek creatures ! The first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks. No words that I know of will say what mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect... | |
 | 1861 - 588 Seiten
...deep and rich as herbage, 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 dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 Seiten
...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 No words that I know of will say what these mosses are ; none are delicate enough ;... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - 1862 - 310 Seiten
...rich as herbage, yet both 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 dintless rocks, — creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1862 - 524 Seiten
...rich as herbage, yet both 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 dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1865 - 502 Seiten
...rich as herbage, yet both 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 dintless rocks; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace... | |
 | 1874 - 968 Seiten
...kindly and tender beauty over 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 dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1866 - 374 Seiten
...rich as herbage, yet both 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 dintless rocks; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace... | |
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Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace of ruin — laying quiet finger on the trembling stones to teach them... 
