 | Literature - 1864 - 640 pages
...sweeping down in scented undulation, steep to the blue water, studded here ип<1 there with new-mown heaps, filling all the air with fainter sweetness,...towards the higher hills, where the waves of everlasting preen roll silently into their long inlets among the shadows of the pinee. ..." There is what the genius,... | |
 | 1856 - 870 pages
...winding mountain-paths, beneath arching boughs all veiled and dim with blossom, — paths that for ever droop and rise over the green banks and mounds, sweeping...the shadows of the pines ; and we may, perhaps, at last know the meaning of those quiet words of the 147th Psalm, ' He maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.'"... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1856 - 450 pages
...sweeping down in scented undulation, steep to the blue water, studded here and there with new-mown heaps, filling all the air with fainter sweetness,...the shadows of the pines ; and we may, perhaps, at last know the <J4 meaning of those quiet words of the 147th Psalm, " He maketh grass to grow upon the... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1856 - 452 pages
...sweeping down in scented undulation, steep to the blue water, studded here and there with new-mown heaps, filling all the air with fainter sweetness,...the shadows of the pines ; and we may, perhaps, at last know the meaning of those quiet words of the 147th Psalm, " He maketh grass to grow upon the mountains."... | |
 | baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1856 - 376 pages
...the full as many charms as it has borrowed from it. After much that is equally beautiful he says, ' Look up towards the higher hills, where the waves...among the shadows of the pines ; and we may perhaps at last know the meaning of those quiet words of the 147th Psalm, ' He maketh the grass to grow upon the... | |
 | 1856 - 332 pages
...sweetness : lookup towards the higher hills, wherethe waves of everlasting green roll silently intn their long inlets among the shadows of the pines; and we may, perhaps, at lost know the meaning of those quiet words of the 147th fVidm, — " lie maketh grass to grow upon... | |
 | American essays - 1871 - 776 pages
...kneedeep in flower-streaked Alpine grasses, and seen, above him, with just that potent longing of vision, "the waves of everlasting green roll silently into...their long inlets among the shadows of the pines." Butw* may say of Professor Tyndall that, on the whole, he gives the mind a higher lift. His pages are... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - New Hampshire - 1859 - 438 pages
...sweeping down in scented undulation, steep to the blue water, studded here and there with new-mown heaps, filling all the air with fainter sweetness,...the shadows of the pines ; and we may, perhaps, at last know the meaning of those quiet words of the 147th Psalm, " He maketh grass to grow upon the mountains."... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...sweeping down in scented undulation, steep to the blue water, studded here and there with new-mown heaps, filling all the air with fainter sweetness,...the shadows of the pines ; and we may, perhaps, at last know the meaning of those quiet words of the 147th Psalm, "He maketh grass to grow upon the mountains."... | |
 | 1859 - 588 pages
...sweeping down in scented undulation, steep to the blue water, studded here and there with new-mown heaps, filling all the air with fainter sweetness,...among the shadows of the pines ; and we may perhaps at last know the meaning of those quiet words of the 147th Psalm, "He maketh grass to grow upon the mountains."... | |
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... heaps, filling all the air with fainter sweetness, — look up towards the higher hills, where the waves of everlasting green roll silently into their long inlets among the shadows of the pines ; and we may, perhaps, at last know the meaning of those... 
