The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 2G. Allen, 1903 |
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Page 400 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yond...
Page 203 - And Gluck went and dwelt in the valley, and the poor were never driven from his door; so that his barns became full of corn and his house of treasure. And for him the river had, according to the dwarf's promise, become a River of Gold.
Page 38 - And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
Page 224 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Page 46 - And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood : 23 And they said, This is blood : the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another : now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
Page 263 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 82 - Oxford Prize Poems, being a Collection of such English Poems as have at various times obtained prizes in the University of Oxford, Oxford, 1839 (ed.
Page 33 - Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot; O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea!
Page 24 - And the Naiad-like lily of the vale, Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale, That the light of its tremulous bells is seen Through their pavilions of tender green...
Page 492 - Said Dame Wiggins of Lee. He had also thought well To comply with their wish To spend all their play-time In learning to fish For stitlings ; they sent her A present of three, Which, fried, were a feast For Dame Wiggins of Lee. But soon she grew tired Of living alone ; So she sent for her cats From school to come home. Each rowing a wherry. Returning you see : The frolic made merry Dame Wiggins of Lee. The Dame was quite pleas'd And ran out to market ; When she came back They were mending the carpet....