 ... glossy traverses of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet or love-token ; but of these the wild bird will make its nest, and the wearied...  Art and Life: A Ruskin Anthology - Page 481by John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 593 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe - Daisies - 1884 - 464 pages
...enough, none rich enough. .... They will not be gathered like the flowers for chaplet or love token ; but of these the wild bird will make its nest and the wearied child its pillow, and as the earth's first mercy so they are its last gift to us. When all other service... | |
 | Pater (pseud.) - Norway - 1884 - 228 pages
...enough, none rich enough. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet or love token ; but of these the wild bird will make its nest, and the weary child its pillow ; and as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all... | |
 | James Eustace Bagnall - Mosses - 1886 - 144 pages
...of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace ? They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet...service is vain from plant and tree, the soft mosses and grey lichen take up their watch by the head-stone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 504 pages
...of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet...earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. "Wnen all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their... | |
 | Readers - 1889 - 236 pages
...of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet...vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray Jichen take up their watch by the headstone. The woods, the blossoms, the giftbearing grasses, have... | |
 | Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - Herefordshire (England) - 1890 - 460 pages
...language, speaking only as a contemplative artist of these minute but lovely productions, says : — "And as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last...service is vain from plant and tree, the soft mosses and grey lichen take up their watch by the headstone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses,... | |
 | Henry Neville Hutchinson - Mountains - 1892 - 424 pages
...sweetest offices of grace ? They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet or love token ; but of these the wild bird will make its nest and...service is vain, from plant and tree the soft mosses and grey lichen take up their watch by the headstone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1894 - 506 pages
...of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet...make its nest, and the wearied child his pillow. And, .is the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...perfect enough, none rich enough. — Raskin. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplct or love-token ; but of these the wild bird will make its nest, and the wearied child his pillow. — Raskin. MOTHER. MOTIVE. " What is wanting," said Napoleon one day to Madame Campari, " in order... | |
 | Joseph Jackson - Botany - 1894 - 390 pages
...what these mosses and lichens are ; none are delicate enough ; none perfect enough ; none rich enough. They will not be gathered like the flowers for chaplet or love-token, but of these the wild-bird will make its nest and the wearied child its pillow, and as the earth's first mercy, so they... | |
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