 | John Ruskin - 1904 - 628 pages
...sweet To grant, or be received ; while that poor bird — O, come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him ; — though a lowly creature,...he sings ! As if he wished the firmament of heaven 1 [Kuskin quotes these lines again in his description of Holman Hunt's picture "The Awakening Conscience"... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1904 - 1002 pages
...v me Been faithless, hear him, though a lo*' creature, One of God's simple children that yet kn • not The universal Parent, how he sings As if he wished the firmament of h Should listen, and give back to him !: voice Of his triumphant constancy and love; ; proclamation... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - 370 pages
...faithless, hear him ; — though a lowly creature, 1 Stanza 16, of Shenstone's twenty-sixth Elegy. One of God's simple children that yet know not The...far His darkness doth transcend our fickle light." 1 The perfection of both these passages, as far as regards truth and tenderness of imagination in the... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1908 - 506 pages
...hear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him; — though a lowly creature, One of (jod's simple children, that yet know not The Universal Parent,...far His darkness doth transcend our fickle light.'" The perfection of both these passages, as far as regards truth and tenderness of imagination in the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1918 - 454 pages
...sweet To grant, or be received; while that poor bird — O, come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him; — though a lowly creature,...far His darkness doth transcend our fickle light." The perfection of both these passages, as far as regards truth and tenderness of imagination in the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1918 - 456 pages
...sweet To grant, or be received; while that poor bird — O, come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him; — though a lowly creature,...children that yet know not The Universal Parent, how he sines! As if he wished the firmament of heaven Should listen, and give back to him the voice Of his... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1924 - 636 pages
...sweet To grant, or be received; while that poor bird — 0, come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him ; — though a lowly creature,...far His darkness doth transcend our fickle light.' The perfection of both these passages, as far aa regards truth and tenderness of imagination in the... | |
 | Alison Hickey - 1997 - 268 pages
...fond partner" in the tree by Ellen's cottage. Ellen addresses her absconded lover: Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him, though a lowly creature,...him the voice Of his triumphant constancy and love. (6.879-85) The bird doesn't "know" the "Parent" because there is no gap across which "knowing" could... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1928 - 312 pages
...sweet To grant, or be received; while that poor bird — O, come and hear him! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him; — though a lowly creature,...makes, how far His darkness doth transcend our fickle light."1 The perfection of both these passages, as far as regards truth and tenderness of imagination... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1866 - 786 pages
...blrd0 come and hear him ! thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him, though a lowly creature watchM One of God's simple children that yet know not The universal Parent, bow he singe As if he wish'd the firmament of heaven Should listen, and give back to him the voice... | |
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Him who is a righteous Judge, — Why do not these prevail for human life, To keep two hearts together, that began Their springtime with one love, and that have need Of mutual pity and forgiveness sweet To grant, or be received; while that poor bird —... 
