While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious... The Pleasures of Life Complete - Page 75by Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 332 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1895 - 722 pages
...Yet once more let us quote from the author whom we have attempted but unsatisfactorily to pourtray. " While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or work of the artist's... | |
| 1873 - 790 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the age that makes nny two persons, things, situations, ncem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...passion, or any contribution to knowledge, that seems, by u lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odors, or work of the artist's... | |
| 1876 - 606 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two things, persons, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment ; or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or the work of... | |
| 1876 - 576 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two things, persons, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment ; or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or the work of... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame - 1878 - 388 pages
...irresistibly real and attractive for us." And thus, "while all melts under our feet," he goes on, " we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odors, or the work of the... | |
| sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 626 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to our knowledge that seems, by a lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring... | |
| William Hurrell Mallock - 1879 - 332 pages
...insight or intellectual excitement, is irresistibly real and attractive for us." And thus, he adds, " while all melts under our feet, we may well catch...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odors, or the Avork of the... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1880 - 278 pages
...irresistibly real and attractive for us." And thus, " while all melts under our feet," he goes on, " we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odors, or the work of the... | |
| William Hurrell Mallock - 1880 - 196 pages
...insight or intellectual excitement, is irresistibly real and attractive for us.' And thus, he adds, 'while all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribitlion to knowledge, that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit fr<i« for a moment, or... | |
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