| John Ruskin - 1860 - 556 strani
...there is a wide distinction, in general, between flower-loving minds and minds of the highest order. Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity...workers in whose heart rests the covenant of peace. Passionate or religious minds contemplate them with fond, feverish intensity ; the affection is seen... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1865 - 502 strani
...sort recognize each other, and so become verily visible to each other for mutual comfort. FLOWERS. Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity;...workers in whose heart rests the covenant of peace. Passionate or religious minds contemplate them with fond, feverish intensity; the affection is seen... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1866 - 374 strani
...sort recognise each other, and so become verily visible to each other foi mutual comfort. FLOWERS. Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity;...workers in whose heart rests the covenant of peace. Passionate or religious minds contemplate them with fond, feverish intensity; the affection is seen... | |
| Roses - 1867 - 172 strani
...brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss. Dean Swift. FLOWERS ^%F 'LOWERS seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity...workers in whose heart rests the covenant of peace. Passionate or religious minds contemplate them with fond, feverish intensity ; the affection is seen... | |
| John Ruskin - 1868 - 372 strani
...sort recognise each other, and so become verily visible to each other foi mutual comfort. FLOWERS. Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity;...workers in whose heart rests the covenant of peace. Passionate or religious minds contemplate them with fond, feverish intensity ; the affection is seen... | |
| John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 strani
...observe most people prefer going in autumn. — MP v. Pt. vi. ch. x. § 2, 3. CHARM OF FLOWERS. — Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity...workers in whose heart rests the covenant of peace. Passionate or religious minds contemplate them with fond, feverish intensity ; the affection is seen... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1869 - 364 strani
...sort recognise each other, and so become verily visible to each other foi mutual comfort. FLOWERS. Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity;...workers in whose heart rests the covenant of peace. Passionate or religious minds contemplate them with fond, feverish intensity; the affection is seen... | |
| 1885 - 900 strani
...the solace of ordinary humanity : children love them ; tender, contented, ordinary people love them. They are the cottager's treasure ; and in the crowded...workers in whose heart rests the covenant of peace." I should be ungrateful indeed did I not fully feel the force of this truth ; but yet it must be confessed... | |
| Thornley Smith - 1878 - 358 strani
...them- gathered. They are the cottager's treasure ; and in the crowded town, mark, as with a little fragment of rainbow, the windows of the workers in whose heart rests the covenant of peace. Passionate or religious minds contemplate them with fond, feverish intensity. The affection is seen... | |
| 1879 - 336 strani
...nay, even in some sort arises naturally out of a deep internal seriousness of disposition. FLOWERS. Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity;...workers in whose heart rests the covenant of peace. Passionate or CHOICE SELECTIONS. 197 ____ , religious minds contemplate them with fond, feverish intensity;... | |
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