 If, in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity, we turn to the sky as a last resource, which of its phenomena do we speak of? One says it has been wet, and another it has been windy, and another it has been warm. Who, among the whole chattering crowd,...  Friends' Weekly Intelligencer - Page 4041870Full view - About this book
 | 1853 - 442 pages
...worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. If, in our moments of utter idleness end insipidity, we turn to the sky as a last resource, which of its phenomena do we speak of 1 One says it has been wet, and another it has been windy, and another it has been warm. Who among... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 pages
...accidents, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity...whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that girded the horizon at noon, yesterday ? Who... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. If, in our moments of utter idleness arid insipidity, we turn to the sky as a last resource,...whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that gilded the horizon at noon yesterday ? Who... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1857 - 500 pages
...accident, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that girded the horizon at noon yesterday ? Who... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 374 pages
...worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. If, in our moments of utter VOL. II. 2 A idleness and insipidity, we turn to the sky as a last...whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that gilded the horizon at noon yesterday ? Who... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 pages
...idleness and insipidity, we turn to the sky as a last resource, which of its phenomena do we speak of? 4. One says it has been wet, and another it has been...and another it has been warm. Who, among the whole clattering crowd, can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains... | |
 | 1858 - 652 pages
...or a glance of admiration. If, in our moments of idleness and insipiditv, we turn to the sky as я last resource, which of its phenomena do we speak of? One says it has been wet, and another it h.-is been windy, and another it has been warm. Who, among the whole chattering crowd, can tell me... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 pages
...accident, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that girded the horizon at noon yesterday ? Who... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 pages
...accident, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of * watchfulness or a glance of admiration. If, in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...last resource, which of its phenomena do we speak of? 4. One says it has been wet, and another it has been windy, and another it has been warm. Who, among... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...moment of watchfulness or glance of admiration. If, in our moments of utter idleness and .sipidity, we turn to the sky as a last resource, which of its phenoena do we speak of 1 One says it has been wet, and another it is been windy, and another it has... | |
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