Unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not, and the autumn 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... MacMillan's Magazine - Page 449edited by - 1886Full view - About this book
| Science - 1873 - 824 pages
...they neither blanch in heat, nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is intrusted the weaving of the dark eternal tapestries of the...their endless imagery. Sharing the stillness of the un impassioned rock, they share also its endurance ; and while the winds of departing spring scatter... | |
| Hugh Macmillan - Botany - 1874 - 464 pages
...they neither blanch in heat, nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is intrusted the weaving of the dark eternal tapestries of the...winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossoms like drifted snow, and summer duns in the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslipgold,... | |
| Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pages
...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 them, slow-pencilled, iriseyed, the tender framing of their endless imagery. Sharing the stillness of the unimpassioned rock,... | |
| Harland Coultas - 1877 - 270 pages
...frets them not, and the autumn wastes not. Strong • in loneliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted,...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... | |
| John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1879 - 506 pages
...worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted,...and while the winds of departing spring scatter the tvhite hawthorn blossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its... | |
| Science - 1878 - 818 pages
...they neither blanch in heat, nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is intrusted the weaving of the dark eternal tapestries of the...iris-dyed, the tender framing of their endless imagery. Shajring the stillness of the unimpassioned rock, they share also its endurance ; and while the winds... | |
| London readers - 1878 - 344 pages
...they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is intrusted the weaving of the dark eternal tapestries of the hills ; to them, slow- pencilled, iris-eyed, the tender framing of their endless imagery. Sharing the stillness of the... | |
| Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - Forest ecology - 1879 - 300 pages
...fingered, constant - headed, is entrusted the weaving of the dark eternal tapes- COMMON HAIR-*OSStries of the hills; to them, slow-pencilled, iris-dyed, the tender framing of their endless imagery." One of the first, as one of the largest, most common, and easily distinguished of mosses found growing... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - Life skills - 1880 - 394 pages
...they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is intrusted the weaving of the dark, eternal tapestries of the...iris-dyed, the tender framing of their endless imagery. When we have personified a thing or an idea, we have only to address it directly and the personification... | |
| Louisa Macduff - 1880 - 304 pages
...but of these the wild bird will make its nest and the wearied child his pillow. . . . While the wild winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn...like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadows the drooping of its cowslip gold— far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen-spots... | |
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