 Meek creatures! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin, — laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them...  Frondes Agrestes: Readings in Modern Painters - Page 137by John Ruskin - 1875 - 184 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 506 pages
...rich as herbage, yet both, for the most part, humblest of green things that live), how of these ? Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling...stones, to teach them rest. No words that I know of will Bay what these mosses are ; none are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough. How is... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 556 pages
...herbage, yet both for the most part humblest of the green things that live), — how of these ? Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling...strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace of rum, — laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest. No words, that I know of,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Painting - 1860 - 452 pages
...herbage, yet both for the most part humblest of the green things that live), — how of these ? Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling...creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin, — laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1888 - 620 pages
...or sis ; but in the end we should, we think, be forced to settle upon ' Moss and Lichens ' : " Meek creatures ! The first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks. No words that I know of will say what mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none... | |
 | Agriculture - 1861 - 588 pages
...and rich as herbage, yet are for the most part of the humblest of the green things that live. Meek creatures, the first mercy of the earth, veiling with...creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin, laying a quiet finger on the tumbling stones, to teach them rest.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1861 - 614 pages
...humblest of green things that live,) how of these? Meek creatures! the first mercy of the earth, vailing with hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin, laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to tcacd them rest... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1861 - 384 pages
...volume of Modern Painters, which also apply conjunctly to the subjects of the preceding chapter : " Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dentless rocks ; creatures full of pity covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - England - 1862 - 310 pages
...as herbage, yet both for the most part humblest of the green things that live) how of these ? Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling...honour the scarred disgrace of ruin, laying quiet fingers on the trembling stones to teach them to rest. No words that I know of will say what these... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - Art - 1862 - 524 pages
...herbage, yet both for the most part humblest of the green things that live),—how of these ? Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling...strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace of ruin,—laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest. No words, that I know of,... | |
 | 1874 - 968 pages
...and tender beauty over Nature's slow decay. Of this humble tribe of plants Ruskin writes : — " Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling...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... | |
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