 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 506 psl.
...ruin, laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest. No words that I know of will Bay what these mosses are ; none are delicate enough,...beaming green — the starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine filmed, as if the rock spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass — the traceries of intricate... | |
 | 1873 - 500 psl.
...palette are too glowing, you need only look around you. " ' No words of which I know will say what mosses are ; none are delicate enough, none perfect...beaming green ; the starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine filmed as though the Rock spirits could spin porphyry ; the traceries of intricate silver, and... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 556 psl.
...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, will...enough, none rich enough. How is one to tell of the 1 The reader must remember always that my work is concerning the aspects of things only. Of course,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 442 psl.
...strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin, —laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest. No words, that I know of, will...to tell of the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green,—the starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine-filmed, as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1888 - 620 psl.
...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...furred and beaming green — the starred divisions of nibied bloom, fine-filmed, as if the Bock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass — the traceries... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 psl.
...and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin, laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to tcacd them rest No words that I know of will say what these...spin porphyry as we do glass — the traceries of in trícate sil ver and fringes of amber, lustrous, aborescent, burnished through every über into... | |
 | 1861 - 588 psl.
...strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin, laying a quiet finger on the tumbling stones, to teach them rest. No words that I know of, will...beaming green, the starred divisions of rubied bloom, the traceries of intricate silver and fringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 psl.
...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, will...we do glass,— the traceries of intricate silver, andfringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every fibre into fitful brightness and... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1866 - 374 psl.
...strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin,—laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest. No words, that I know of, will...to tell of the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green,—the starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine-filmed, as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry... | |
 | 1874 - 968 psl.
...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 will say...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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... to teach them rest. No words, that I know of, will say what these mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough. 
