 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
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 462 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... | |
 | Frank Townsend Southwick - 1900 - 472 pages
...placed, however far from other sources of interest or of beauty, has this doing for him constantly. Yet, if in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...warm. Who among the whole chattering crowd can tell one of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that girded the horizon at... | |
 | Frank Townsend Southwick - 1900 - 488 pages
...interest or of beauty, has this doing for him constantly. Yet, if in our moments of utter idle • ness and insipidity, we turn to the sky as a last resource,...warm. Who among the whole chattering crowd can tell one of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that girded the horizon at... | |
 | Harry Pratt Judson, Ida C. Bender - 1901 - 268 pages
...sky as a last resource, which of its phenomena 5 65 do we speak of ? One says it has been wet ; anil another, it has been windy ; and another, it has been...whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white moun5 tains that girded the horizon at noon yesterday ? Who... | |
 | Ida Catherine Bender, Harry Pratt Judson - 1901 - 266 pages
...of watchfulness or a glance of admiration. If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity, we a0 turn to the sky as a last resource, which of its phenomena 5 65 do we speak of ? One says it has been wet ; and another, it has been windy ; and another, it has... | |
 | Cora Marsland - 1902 - 270 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 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... | |
 | Edna Henry Lee Turpin - 1902 - 432 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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 824 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 1 [For another reference to this piece hy Wordsworth (" She was... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1903 - 514 pages
...vni THE BEAUTIES OF NATUKE watched a cloud floating upwards as if on its way to heaven ? And yet " if, in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...its phenomena do we speak of ? One says, it has been £ 1 f' wet ; and another, it has been windy ; and another, it has been warm. Who, among the whole... | |
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