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
| 1860 - 712 pages
...attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with pur animal sensations. If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity...we speak of? One says it has been wet, and another that it has been windy, and another it has been warm. Who among the whole chattering crowd can tell... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 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,...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 Russell Mitford - 1862 - 592 pages
...accident, too common and too painful to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. If, in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...speak of? One says it has been wet, and another it has been1 windy, and another it has been warm. Who, among the whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the... | |
| Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 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... | |
| Wonders - 1866 - 400 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... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...accidents, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. 7. 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 - 1867 - 540 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... | |
| John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 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... | |
| Henry Allon - 1847 - 594 pages
...eloquence, ' of the open sky.' We wish we had room for the whole ; but a sentence must suffice : — ' If, in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...says it has been wet, and another, it has been windy. Who, among the whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 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... | |
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