 | 1873 - 500 pages
...embroidered with arabesques of purple and silver. Sharing the stillness of the unimpassioued rock, mosses 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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 556 pages
...wastes not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the...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... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1888 - 620 pages
...wastes not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is [entrusted the weaving of the...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... | |
 | Crosthwaite and co - 1860 - 622 pages
...wastes not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, slowfingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the dark eternal tapestries of the hills • to them slow, iriseyed, the tender framing of their endless imagery. Sharing the stillness of the unimpassioned... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1860 - 574 pages
...wastes not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the dark, eternal, tapestries of the hills ; to thorn, slow-pencilled, irisdyed, the tender framing of their endless imagery. Sharing the stillness... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1861 - 634 pages
...them not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the...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... | |
 | Agriculture - 1861 - 588 pages
...lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. Slow-fingered, constant-hearted, to them is entrusted the weaving of the dark, eternal tapestries...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,... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - Botany - 1861 - 320 pages
...they neither blanch in heat, nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constanthearted, is intrusted the weaving of the dark eternal tapestries of the...and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossoms like drifted snow, and summer duns in the parched meadow the drooping of its... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1861 - 614 pages
...heat nor pine in frost To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the dork eternal tapestries of the hills ; to them, slow-pencilled,...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... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1861 - 636 pages
...them not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the...their endless imagery. Sharing the stillness of the unimpassioae'd rock, they share also its endurance : and while the winds of departing spring scatter... | |
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To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the dark, eternal tapestries of the hills; to them, slow-pencilled, iris-dyed, the tender framing of their endless imagery. Sharing the stillness of the unimpassioned rock, they share... 
