 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 pages
...beauty of expression on his side when he says, "Far above, among the mountains, the Silver Lichen spots rest, starlike, on the stone ; and the gathering orange...western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years." The well-known Iceland Moss, which is a Lichen, was found by myself growing on Bidston Hill. It would... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 506 pages
...blossom like drifted snow, and summer dews on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip gold, far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen-spots...western peak, reflects the sunsets of a thousand years. — British Quarterly Review. •igOLITICAL DISSENTERS. TATE are not to be deterred in our work by... | |
 | 1873 - 500 pages
...share also its endurance, and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossoms like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip gold far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen spots rest starlike on the stones, and... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1888 - 620 pages
...share also its endurance; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn-blossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched...western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years." The reader will not fail to notice that this beautiful conclusion is in verse : "The gathering orange... | |
 | Crosthwaite and co - 1860 - 622 pages
...blossom like drifted snow, and summer duns on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip gold, far above among the mountains, the silver lichen-spots...western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years." In treating of the second portion of the first half of tho book, " Cloud Beauty," briefness is now... | |
 | English language - 1861 - 634 pages
...share also its endurance : and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched...starlike, on the stone ; and the gathering orange stain up on the edge of yonder western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years." (Vol. V. pp. 107,... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1861 - 636 pages
...share also its endurance : and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched...starlike, on the stone ; and the gathering orange stain up on the edge of yonder western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years." (Vol. V. pp. 107,... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - Botany - 1861 - 320 pages
...winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossoms like drifted snow, and summer duns in the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip-gold,...lichen-spots rest, starlike on the stone, and the gathering orange-stain upon the edge of yonder western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years." FOOTNOTES... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1861 - 614 pages
...share also its endurance ; and while the winds Of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip gold, far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen-spots rest, starlike, on the stone... | |
 | Agriculture - 1861 - 588 pages
...they share also its endurance ; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the hawthorn blossoms like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping cowslip gold, far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen spots rest, star-like, on the stone,... | |
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Sharing the stillness of the unimpassioned rock, they share also its endurance ; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip-gold, —... 
