 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,...  Works - Page 94by John Ruskin - 1887Full view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 556 pages
...Star-shaped, heart-shaped, spear-shaped, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated, sinuated ; in whorls, in tufts, in spires, in wreaths, endlessly...watchfulness, and take delight in outstripping our wonder. Secondly, observe, their forms are such as will not be visibly injured by crushing. Their complexity... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1860 - 442 pages
...Star-shaped, heart-shaped, spear-shaped, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated, sinuated; in whorls, in tufts, in spires, in wreaths endlessly...jags and rents are their laws of being; rent by the footstep, they betray no harm. Here, for instance (Fig. 72), Fig. 72. is the mere outline of a buttercup-leaf... | |
 | John Ruskin - Painting - 1860 - 452 pages
...do not repeat iii this volume. arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated, sinuated ; in whorls, in tufts, in spires, in wreaths endlessly...their forms are such as will not be visibly injured by crashing. Their complexity is already disordered : jags and rents are their laws of being ; rent by... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1860 - 574 pages
...Star-shaped, heart-shaped, spear-shaped, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated, sinuated ; in whorls, in tufts, in spires, in wreaths, endlessly...perpetually to tempt our watchfulness, and take delight m outstripping our wonder. Secondly, observe, their forms are such as will not be visibly injured by... | |
 | Science - 1885 - 900 pages
...Star-shaped, heart-shaped, spear-shaped, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated, sinuated, in whorls, in tufts, in spires, in wreaths, endlessly...watchfulness and take delight in outstripping our wonder." Now, why is this marvelous variety, this inexhaustible treasury of beautiful forms ? Does it result... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1873 - 552 pages
...Star-shaped, heart-shaped, spear-shaped, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated, sinuated; in whorls, in tufts, in spires, in wreaths, endlessly...watchfulness, and take delight in outstripping our wonder. Fig. 72. ยง11. Secondly, observe, their forms are such as will not be visibly injured by crushing.... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1879 - 506 pages
...Star-sljaped, heart-shaped, spear-shaped, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated, sinuated ; in whorls, in tufts, in spires, in wreaths endlessly...jags and rents are their laws of being ; rent by the foot* Pre-EaphaAitiam. The essay contains some important notes on Turner's work, which, therefore,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1885 - 932 pages
...Star-shaped, heart-shaped, spear-shaped, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated, sinuated, in whorls, in tufts, in spires, in wreaths, endlessly...watchfulness and take delight in outstripping our wonder." Now, why is this marvellous variety, this inexhaustible treasury of beautiful forms? Does it result... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Botany - 1886 - 168 pages
...Starshaped, heart-shaped, spear-shaped, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated, sinuated, in whorls, in tufts, in spires, in wreaths, endlessly...watchfulness and take delight in outstripping our wonder." Now, why is this marvellous variety, this inexhaustible treasury of beautiful forms ? Does it result... | |
 | John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - Art - 1886 - 610 pages
...Star-shaped, heart-shaped, spearshaped, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated, sinuated ; in whorls, in tufts, in spires, in wreaths endlessly...watchfulness, and take delight in outstripping our wonder. And observe, their forms are such as will not be visibly injured by crushing. Their complexity is already... | |
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