 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
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 304 pages
...sky"? who has not 1 Ruskin. • watched a cloud floating upwards as if on its way to heaven ? And yet " 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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 452 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... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pages
...accidents, too common and too vain to be worthv of a moment of watchfulness or a glance of admixtion. If, in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...wet, and another it has been windy, and another it lias been warm. Who, among the whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the forms and precipices of the... | |
 | Sir Charles Waldstein - 1893 - 218 pages
...worthy of a moment of watchfulness or a glance of admiration If in our moments of utter idleness or insipidity we turn to the sky as a last resource,...warm. Who among the whole chattering crowd can tell one of the forms and precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that girded the horizon at noon... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 358 pages
...way to heaven, or when " Sunbeam proof, I hang like a roof The mountain its columns be." 2 And yet " 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... | |
 | Sir Charles Waldstein - 1894 - 214 pages
...worthy of a moment of watchfulness or a glance of admiration. If in our moments of utter idleness or insipidity we turn to the sky as a last resource,...warm. Who among the whole chattering crowd can tell one of the forms and precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that girded the horizon at noon... | |
 | 1895 - 406 pages
...it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our animal sensations. * * * * If, in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...it has been windy, and another it has been warm." From the "Journal," Jersey City, NJ, May 2, 1896. The Johnson Book Typewriter Company will have its... | |
 | Mary Frances Hyde - 1895 - 246 pages
...truth makes f ree. — COWPER. 7. Ah ! what is that sound which now bursts on his ear ? — DIMOND. 8. Who, among the 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... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - 1897 - 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, we turn to the sky as a kst resource, which of its phenomena do we speak of? One says it has been wet, and another it has been... | |
 | Robert de La Sizeranne - 1899 - 344 pages
...precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that girded the horizon at noon yesterday ? " — " One says, it has been wet ; and another, it has been windy ; and another, it has been warm." — "Who saw the narrow sunbeam that came out of the south, and smote upon their summits until they melted and... | |
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