 The noblest scenes of the earth can be seen and known but by few ; it is not intended that man should live always in the midst of them ; he injures them by his presence, he ceases to feel them if he be always with them : but the sky is for all ; bright...  Hand-book for Young Painters - Page 258by Charles Robert Leslie - 1870 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1847 - 584 pages
...quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure. And every man, wherever placed, however far from other sources of interest...the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes... | |
 | 1847 - 574 pages
...; bright, iHjiti is, it is not ' too bright, nor good, for human nature's daily food, * sit dsi > : fitted, -in all its functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting; of 'the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross, .and. duet. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious,... | |
 | Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - 1848 - 856 pages
...quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure. And every man, wherever placed, however far from other sources of interest...the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing and purifying of it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes... | |
 | 1850 - 590 pages
...wordpainters, " though so bright, ' is not too bright, nor good, for human nature's daily food,' but is fitted in all its functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes... | |
 | 1850 - 588 pages
...wordpainters, " though so bright, ' is not too bright nor good, for human nature's daily food,' but is fitted in all its functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heBrt, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...of interest or of beauty, has this doing for him constantly. The noblest scenes of the earth can he seen and known but by few ; it is not intended that...the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it. and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious,... | |
 | Jean Ingelow - 1851 - 464 pages
...live always in the midst of them. He injures them by his presence; he ceases to feel them if he is always with them ; but the sky is for all. Bright...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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 pages
...certain that it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure. And every man, wherever placed, however far from other sources of interest...the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it, and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious,... | |
 | 1853 - 394 pages
...teaching him, than in any other of her works ; and it is just the part in which we least attend to her. The noblest scenes of the earth can be seen and known...the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, somtimes... | |
 | 1852 - 644 pages
...teaching him, than in any other of her works ; and it is just the part in which we least attend to her. The noblest scenes of the earth can be seen and known...the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes... | |
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