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" The first thing which I remember as an event in life, was being taken by my nurse to the brow of Friar's Crag on Derwentwater; the intense joy, mingled with awe, that I had in looking through the hollows in the mossy roots, over the crag, into the dark... "
Modern Painters ... - Page 289
by John Ruskin - 1879
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Modern Painters ...

John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1856 - 452 pages
...remember, as an event in life, was being taken by my nurse to the brow of Friar's Crag on Derwentwater; the intense joy, mingled with awe, that I had in looking...crossing Shapfells (being let out of the chaise to run up the hills), and going through Glenfarg, near Kinross, in a winter's morning, when the rocks...
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The True and the Beautiful: In Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 496 pages
...remember as an event in life, was being taken by my nurse to the brow of Friar's Crag on Derwentwater; the intense joy, mingled with awe, that I had in looking...remember, as, in a sort, beginnings of life ; — crossing Shnpfclls (being let out of the chaise to run up the hills), and going through Glenfurg, near Kinross,...
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The True and the Beautiful: In Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion

John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...remember as an event in life, was being taken by my nurse to the brow of Friar's Crag on Derwentwater; the intense joy, mingled with awe, that I had in looking...more or less with all twining roots of trees ever sinee. Two other things I remember, as, in a sort, beginnings of life;—crossing Shapfells (being...
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The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion: Selected ...

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...remember as an event in life, was being taken by my nurse to the brow of Friar's Crag on Derwentwater ; the intense joy, mingled with awe, that I had in looking...dark lake, has associated itself more or less with nil twining roots of trees ever since. Two other things I remember, as, in a sort, beginnings of life...
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Essays in Biography and Criticism, Volume 1

Peter Bayne - Authors, English - 1860 - 432 pages
...remember, as an event in life, was being taken by my nurse to the brow of Friar's Crag on Derwentwater; the intense joy, mingled with awe, that I had in looking...the dark lake, has associated itself more or less Avith all twining roots of trees ever since. Two other things I remember, as, in a sort, beginnings...
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Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia", Volume 5

Charles Knight - Biography - 1867 - 532 pages
...remember, as an event in life, was being taken by my nurse to the brow of Friar's Crag on Derwentwater ; the intense joy, mingled with awe, that I had in looking...or less with all twining roots of trees ever since. These feelings [of 'awe and heart hunger' in the presence of mountains] remained in their full intensity...
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The English Cyclopaedia, Part 3, Volume 5

Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 534 pages
...by my nurse to the brow of Friar's Crag on Derwentwater , the intense joy, mingled with awe, that 1 had in looking through the hollows in the mossy roots...or less with all twining roots of trees ever since. These feelings [of 'awe and heart hunger" in the pres*n« of mountains] remained in their full intensity...
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The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion

John Ruskin - 1872 - 500 pages
...remember as an event in life, was being taken by my nurse to the brow of Friar's Crag on Derwentwater; the intense joy, mingled with awe, that I had in looking...crossing Shapfells (being let out of the chaise to run up the hills), and going through Glenfarg, near Kinross, in a winter's morning, when the rocks...
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The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion: Selected ...

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1872 - 500 pages
...remember as an event in life, was being taken by my nurse to the brow of Friar's Crag on Derwentwater; the intense joy, mingled with awe, that I had in looking...remember, as, in a sort, beginnings of life ; — crossing ShapMls (being let out of the chaise to run up the hills), and going through Glenfarg, near Kinross,...
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Modern Painters, Volume 3

John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1872 - 418 pages
...remember, as an event in life, was being taken by my nurse to the brow of Friar's Crag on Derweutwater; the intense joy, mingled with awe, that I had in looking...remember, as, in a sort, beginnings of life ; — crossing Snap fells (being let out of the chaise to run up the hills), and going through Glenfarg, near Kinross,...
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