Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 9Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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Page 3287
... seen and known but by few ; it is not intended that man should live always in the midst of them ; he injures them by his presence , he ceases to feel them if he is always with them ; but the sky is for all : bright as it is , it is not ...
... seen and known but by few ; it is not intended that man should live always in the midst of them ; he injures them by his presence , he ceases to feel them if he is always with them ; but the sky is for all : bright as it is , it is not ...
Page 3288
... seen , and loved ere it is understood ; things which the angels work out for us daily , and yet vary eternally ; which are never wanting , and never repeated , which are to be found always , yet each found but once ; it is through these ...
... seen , and loved ere it is understood ; things which the angels work out for us daily , and yet vary eternally ; which are never wanting , and never repeated , which are to be found always , yet each found but once ; it is through these ...
Page 3289
... seen nearer , composed of clusters or tresses of cloud , like floss silk ; looking as if each knot were a little swathe or sheaf of lighted rain . Aqueous vapor or mist , suspended in the atmosphere , becomes visible exactly as dust ...
... seen nearer , composed of clusters or tresses of cloud , like floss silk ; looking as if each knot were a little swathe or sheaf of lighted rain . Aqueous vapor or mist , suspended in the atmosphere , becomes visible exactly as dust ...
Page 3290
... seen between it and the mountain edge , yet never leaving it - poised as a white bird hovers over its nest ! Or those war clouds that gather on the horizon , dragon - crested , tongued with fire , —how is their barbed strength bridled ...
... seen between it and the mountain edge , yet never leaving it - poised as a white bird hovers over its nest ! Or those war clouds that gather on the horizon , dragon - crested , tongued with fire , —how is their barbed strength bridled ...
Page 3292
... nor dinner . I have seen such a storm on the Rigi , however , and more than one such sunrise ; and I much doubt if its present visitors by rail will see more . J. R. - wreaths create themselves , you know not how , 3292 JOHN RUSKIN.
... nor dinner . I have seen such a storm on the Rigi , however , and more than one such sunrise ; and I much doubt if its present visitors by rail will see more . J. R. - wreaths create themselves , you know not how , 3292 JOHN RUSKIN.
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Page 3432 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Page 3490 - OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three.
Page 3288 - Who saw the narrow sunbeam that came out of the south and smote upon their summits until they melted and mouldered away in a dust of blue rain? Who saw the dance of the dead clouds when the sunlight left them last night, and the west wind blew them before it like withered leaves?
Page 3437 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Page 3288 - Who saw the dance of the dead clouds where the sunlight left them last night, and the west wind blew them before it like withered leaves? All has passed unregretted as unseen; or if the apathy be ever shaken off even for an instant, it is only by what is gross, or what is extraordinary. And yet it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, nor in the clash of the hail, nor the drift of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed. God is not...
Page 3547 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Page 3451 - How many merchants and carriers, besides, must have been employed in transporting the materials from some of those workmen to others who often live in a very distant part of the country ? How much commerce and navigation in particular, how many ship-builders, sailors, sail-makers, rope-makers, must have been employed in order to bring together the different drugs made use of by the dyer, which often come from the remotest corners of the world...
Page 3287 - IT 1s a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man — more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him, and teaching him — than in any other of her works; and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.
Page 3388 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men ; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music ; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Page 3396 - It is not that I adulate the people: Without me, there are demagogues enough, And infidels, to pull down every steeple, And set up in their stead some proper stuff. Whether they may sow scepticism to reap hell, As is the Christian dogma rather rough, I do not know; — I wish men to be free As much from mobs as kings— from you as me.