 Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity, its appeal to what is immortal in us is as distinct, as...  Modern Painters - Página 202por John Ruskin - 1873Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1860 - 722 páginas
...perfect beauty, that it is quite certain it is all done for us and intended for our perpetual pleasure. And yet we never attend to it, we never make it a...thought, but as it has to do with our animal sensations. If in our momenta of utter idleness and insipidity we turn to the sky as a last resource, which of... | |
 | 1847 - 584 páginas
...spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity, its appeal to what is immortal in us, is as distinct, as its ministry of chastisement or of...look upon all by which it speaks to us more clearly than to brutes, upon all which bears witness to the intention of the Supreme, that we are to receive... | |
 | 1847 - 574 páginas
...spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity, its appeal to what is immortal in us, is as distinct, as its ministry of chastisement ' .or...it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it las to do with our; animal sensations; we look upon all by which it speiksa tO' us morp clearly than... | |
 | Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - 1848 - 856 páginas
...spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity, its appeal to what is immortal in us, is as distinct, as its ministry of chastisement, or of...look upon all by which it speaks to us more clearly than to brutes, upon all which bears witness to the intention of the Supreme, that we are to receive... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 páginas
...almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity, its appeal to what is immortal in us as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or of...look upon all by which it speaks to us more clearly than to brutes, upon all which bears witness to the intention of the Supreme, that we are to receive... | |
 | Jean Ingelow - 1851 - 464 páginas
...food." It is fitted in all its functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart. . . . And yet we never attend to it — we never make it a subject of thought but as it has to do with our diurnal sensations. We look upon all by which it speaks to us more clearly than to brutes — upon... | |
 | 1852 - 644 páginas
...spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity ; its appeal to what is immortal in us is as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or of...look upon all by which it speaks to us, more clearly than to brutes, upon all which bears witness to the intention of the Supreme, that we are to receive... | |
 | 1853 - 394 páginas
...spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity. Its appeal to what is immortal in us, is as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or of...our animal sensations ! We look upon all by which the sky speaks to us, more clearly than to brutes— upon all which bears witness to the invention... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 páginas
...it ' 2" in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity, its appeal to what is immortal in us, is as distinct, as its ministry of chastisement or of...look upon all by which it speaks to us more clearly than to brutes, upon all which bears witness to the intention of the Supreme, that we are to receive... | |
 | 1853 - 442 páginas
...OPEN SKY. in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity, its appeal to what is immortal in us, is as distinct, as its ministry of chastisement or of...look upon all by which it speaks to us more clearly than to brutes, upon nil which bears witness to the intention of the Supreme, that we are to receive... | |
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