 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
 | Alfred Richard Sennett - 1904 - 608 pages
...accident, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment 269 of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. 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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1904 - 202 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,...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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 pages
...accident, 20 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...wet; and another, it has been windy; and another, 25 it has been warm. Who, among the whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the forms and the precipices... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 pages
...phenomena do we speak of? One says it has been wet; and another, it has been windy; and another, 25 it has been warm. 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... | |
 | Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood - 1910 - 280 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... | |
 | Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood - 1910 - 280 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... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1911 - 412 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... | |
 | Clarence Franklin Carroll, Sarah Catherine Brooks - 1912 - 296 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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1918 - 456 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... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 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,...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... | |
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