 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 506 pages
...grave. Yet as, in one sense, the humblest, in another they are the most honoured of the earth-children. Unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not and...neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, glowfingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the dark eternal tapestries of the hills... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 556 pages
...25. Yet as in one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honoured of the earth-children. Unfading, as motionless, the worm frets them not,...frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the dark, eternal, tapestries of the hills ; to them, slow-pencilled, irisdyed,... | |
 | Crosthwaite and co - 1860 - 622 pages
...— " As in one sense the humblest, in another they are tho most honoured, of the earth children : unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not, and...frost. To them, slowfingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the dark eternal tapestries of the hills • to them slow, iriseyed, the tender... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1888 - 620 pages
...grave. "Yet aa in one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honoured of the earth-children. Unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not, and...frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is [entrusted the weaving of the dark eternal tapestries of the hills ; to them slow-pencilled, iris-dyed,... | |
 | English language - 1861 - 634 pages
...another they are the most honored of the earth-children. Unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat...frost. To them slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the dark, eternal, tapestries of the hills ; to them slowpencilled, iris-dyed,... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1861 - 636 pages
...another they are the most honored of the earth-children. Unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat...frost. To them slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the dark, eternal, tapestries of the hills ; to them slowpencilled, iris-dyed,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1861 - 614 pages
...grave. Yet as, in one sense, the humblest, in another they are the most honored of the earth-children. Unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not. and the autumn wastes not. Strong in lowliness, tin. y neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted... | |
 | Agriculture - 1861 - 588 pages
...grave. Yet as in one sense the humblest, in another they are the most honored of the earth-children. Unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes no'. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. Slow-fingered, constant-hearted,... | |
 | Geology - 1862 - 372 pages
...throughout the whole year, — under the cloudy sky of December and in the sunshine of June. They arc no summer friends. As Ruskin has beautifully observed,...slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is intrusted the dark eternal tapestries of the hills ; to them, slow-pencilled, iris-dyed, the tender framing of their... | |
 | Science - 1862 - 372 pages
...under the cloudy sky of December and in the sunshine of June. They are no summer friends. As Euskin has beautifully observed, " Unfading as motionless,...slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is intrusted the _dark eternal tapestries of the hills ; to them, slow-pencilled, iris-dyed, the tender framing of their... | |
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Unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. 
