 | 1862 - 1406 sidor
...oven ; and a little pale and hollow stalk, feeble and flaccid, leading down to the dull brown fibres of roots. And yet think of it well, and judge whether of all the joyous flowers that beam in •uinmer air, and of all strong and goodly trees, pleasant to the eyes,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 452 sidor
...oven; and a little pale and hollow stalk, feeble and flaccid, leading down to the dull brown fibres of roots. And yet, think of it well, and judge whether...highly graced, as that narrow point of feeble green. It seems to me not to have been without a peculiar significance, that our Lord, when about to work... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 450 sidor
...oven; and a little pale and hollow stalk, feeble and flaccid, leading down to the dull brown fibres of roots. And yet, think of it well, and judge whether...highly graced, as that narrow point of feeble green. It seems to me not to have been without a peculiar significance, that our Lord, when about to work... | |
 | 1856 - 332 sidor
...feeble and flaeeid, leading down to the dull brown fibres of roots. And yet think of it well, and indge whether of all the gorgeous flowers that beam in summer...pleasant to the eyes or good for food — stately pahn and pine, strong ash and oak, seented eitron, burdened vine — there be any by man so deeply... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour - 1859 - 492 sidor
...oven ; and a little pale and hollow stalk, feeble and flaccid, leading down to the dull brown fibres of roots. And yet, think of it well, and judge whether...God so highly graced, as that narrow point of feeble grass. It seems to me not to have been -without peculiar significance, that our Lord, when about to... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 sidor
...oven ; and a little pale and hollow stalk, feeble and flaccid, leading down to the dull brown fibres of roots. And yet, think of it well, and judge whether...all strong and goodly trees, pleasant to the eyes and good for food, — stately palm and pine, strong ash and oak, scented citron, burdened vine, —... | |
 | 1859 - 534 sidor
...oven ; and a little pale and hollow stalk, feeble and flaccid, leading down to the dull brown fibres of roots. And yet, think of it well, and judge whether of all the gorgeous flowers that bloom in summer air, and of all strong and goodly trees, pleasant to the eyes and good for food, —... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - 1859 - 438 sidor
...oven ; and a little pale and hollow stalk, feeble and flaccid, leading down to the dull brown fibres of roots. And yet, think of it well, and judge whether of all the gorgeous Sowers that beam in summer air, and of all strong and goodly trees, pleasant to the eyes and good for... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 sidor
...gorgeous flowers that beam in summer air, and of all strong and goodly trees, pleasant to the eyes and good for food,— stately palm and pine, strong ash and oak, scented citron, burdened vine,—there be any by man so deeply loved, by God so highly graced, as that narrow point of feeble... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 436 sidor
...gorgeous flowers that beam in summer air, and of all strong and goodly trees, pleasant to the eyes and good for food, — stately palm and pine, strong ash...highly graced, as that narrow point of feeble green. . . . . " Consider what we owe merely to the meadow grass, to the covering of the dark ground by that... | |
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Nature's workmanship ; made, as it seems, only to be trodden on to-day, and to-morrow to be cast into the oven; and a little pale and hollow stalk, feeble and flaccid, leading down to the dull brown fibres of roots. And yet, think of it well, and judge... 
