 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 506 pages
...and rich as herbage, yet both, for the most part, humblest of green things that live), how of these ? Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the .scarred disgrace... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 556 pages
...as herbage, yet both for the most part humblest of the green things that live), — how of these ? Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1888 - 620 pages
...five or sis ; but in the end we should, we think, be forced to settle upon ' Moss and Lichens ' : " Meek creatures ! The first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks. No words that I know of will say what mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect... | |
 | Agriculture - 1861 - 588 pages
...deep and rich as herbage, yet are for the most part of the humblest of the green things that live. Meek creatures, the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1861 - 614 pages
...hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin, laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to tcacd them rest No words that I know of will say what these mosses are ; none are delicate enough ;... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - England - 1862 - 310 pages
...rich as herbage, yet both for the most part humblest of the green things that live) how of these ? Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks, — creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - Art - 1862 - 524 pages
...rich as herbage, yet both for the most part humblest of the green things that live),—how of these ? Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1865 - 502 pages
...rich as herbage, yet both for the most part humblest of the green things that live), — how of these? Meek creatures! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace... | |
 | 1874 - 968 pages
...kindly and tender beauty over Nature's slow decay. Of this humble tribe of plants Ruskin writes : — " Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English essays - 1866 - 374 pages
...rich as herbage, yet both for the most part humblest of the green things that live),—how of these ? Meek creatures! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace... | |
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Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace of ruin — laying quiet finger on the trembling stones to teach them... 
