 ... to be trodden on, and fed upon. Its cheerfulness, in that it seems to exult under all kinds of violence and suffering. You roll it, and it is stronger the next day ; you mow it, and it multiplies its shoots, as if it were grateful ; you tread upon...  Very successful! - Page 185by baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1856Full view - About this book
 | William Jones (theologian.) - 1879 - 516 pages
..." seeketh not her own." 2. Cheerfulness in the midst of adversity. When winter comes, the grass, " though it will not mock its fellowplants by growing then, it will not pine and mourn, and turn colourless or leafless as they. It is always green, and is only the brighter and gayer for... | |
 | John William Kirton - 1880 - 284 pages
...it, and it multiplies its shoots, as if it were grateful ; you tread upon it, and it only sends up richer perfume. Spring comes, and it rejoices with...strength. Winter comes, and though it will not mock its fellow plants by growing then, it will not pine and mourn, and turn colourless or leafless as they.... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1882 - 508 pages
...shoots, as if it were grateful ; you tread upon it. and it only sends up richer perfume. Spring cornea, and it rejoices with all the earth, — glowing with...strength. Winter comes, and, though it will not mock its fellow plants by growing then, it will not pine and mourn, and turn colourless and leafless as they.... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1882 - 506 pages
...it, and it multiplies its shoots, as if it were grateful ; you tread upon it. and it only sends up richer perfume. Spring comes, and it rejoices with all the earth,— glowing with variegated fl»me of flowers, — waving in soft depth of fruitful strength. Winter comes, and, though it will... | |
 | 1885 - 544 pages
...it, and it multiplies its shoots, as if it were grateful ; you tread upon it, and it only sends up richer perfume, Spring comes, and it rejoices with...fruitful strength. Winter comes, and, though it will not jnock its fellow-plants by growing then, it will not pine and mourn and turn colorless or leafless... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1885 - 654 pages
...shoots, as if it were grateful ; you tread upon it, and it only sends up richer perfume. Spring cornea, and it rejoices with all the earth, — glowing with...strength. Winter comes, and though it will not mock its fellow plants by growing then, it will not pine and mourn, and turn colorless or leafless as they.... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1886 - 506 pages
...it, and it multiplies its shoots, as if it were grateful ; you tread upon it. and it only sends up richer perfume. Spring comes, and it rejoices with...strength. Winter comes, and, though it will not mock its fellow plants by growing then, it will not pine and mourn, and turn colourless and leafless as they.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 664 pages
...it, and it multiplies its shoots, as if it were grateful ; you tread upon it, and it only sends up richer perfume. Spring comes, and it rejoices with...strength. Winter comes, and though it will not mock its fellow plants by growing then, it will not pine and mournj and turn colorless or leafless as they.... | |
 | Walter Baxendale - 1888 - 708 pages
...it, and it multipliée its shoots, as if it wore grat- ful ; you tread upon it, and it only sends up richer perfume. Spring comes, and it rejoices with...glowing with variegated flame of flowers, waving in »oft depth of fruitful strength. Winter comes, and though it will not mock its fellow-plants by growing... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1888 - 1230 pages
...it, and it multiplies its shoots, as if it were grateful ; you tread upon it, and it only sends up richer perfume. Spring comes, and it rejoices with all the earth, — glowing with varie226 OF MEDIAEVAL LANDSCAPE. [PAST IT. gated flume of flowers, — waving in soft depth of fruitful... | |
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