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,... Examinations Papers - Page 271894Full view - About this book
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 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 last resource, which of its phenomena do we speak of? One says it has been wet, and another it... | |
| Society of Friends - 1870 - 930 pages
...leisure at other times. " It is a strange thing," gays Ruskin, "how little people know about the sky. If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity...me of the forms and precipices of the chain of tall mountains that girded the horizon at noon yesterday ? Who saw the narrow sunbeam that came out of the... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1872 - 500 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... | |
| John Ruskin - 1872 - 500 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... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 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,...whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that gilded the horizon at noon yesterday ? Who... | |
| English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...make it a subject of thought but as it has to do with our animal sensations. If, in our moments of idleness and insipidity, we turn to the sky as a last...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 1 Who... | |
| Baptists - 1875 - 444 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 - 1875 - 206 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... | |
| John Ruskin - Architecture, Italian - 1875 - 200 pages
...accident, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. If in our mo,ments 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 - Aesthetics - 1875 - 204 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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