| John Ruskin - English essays - 1918 - 454 pages
...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...the stone; and the gathering orange stain upon the edge of yonder western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years. THE BIRD AND THE SERPENT [Queen... | |
| Caleb Thomas Winchester - English literature - 1922 - 430 pages
...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...the stone; and the gathering orange stain upon the edge of yonder western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years,1 Ruskin's manner changed, about... | |
| A. C. Seward - History - 1922 - 158 pages
...Greenland; one is reminded of Ruskin's description: Far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen spots rest, star-like, on the stone: and the gathering orange stain, upon the edge of yonder peak, reflects the sunsets of a thousand years — To them, slow-fingered, constanthearted,... | |
| Warner Taylor - American essays - 1923 - 532 pages
...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...the stone; and the gathering orange stain upon the edge of yonder western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years. B. THE OPEN SKY1 It is a strange... | |
| John Drinkwater - Literature - 1927 - 604 pages
...also its endurance; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthornblossom 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;... | |
| Warner Taylor - American essays - 1923 - 524 pages
...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, star-like, on the stone;... | |
| Warner Taylor - American essays - 1927 - 668 pages
...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;... | |
| University of Iowa - Philology - 1928 - 760 pages
...also its endurance; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorne blossoms like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow...cowslip gold, far above among the mountains the silver lichen rests starlike on the stone, and the gathering orange upon the edge of yonder western peak reflects... | |
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