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
| 1889 - 684 pages
...them if he be always with them : but the sky is for all ; bright as it is, it is not ' too bright or good For human nature's daily food ;' it is fitted...soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust."* In spite of this fact, man scarcely deigns to look at it, unless it be to learn the weather. He will... | |
| 1889 - 1038 pages
...ceases to feel them if he bo always with them ; but the sky is for all ; bright as it is it is not Moo bright, nor good, for human nature's daily food';...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... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1890 - 348 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... | |
| Joseph Forster - 1890 - 162 pages
...them if he be always with them : but the sky is for all ; bright as it is, it is not ' Too bright or good For human nature's daily food '; it is fitted...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... | |
| Joseph Forster - 1890 - 160 pages
...them if he be always with them : but the sky is for all ; bright as it is, it is not ' Too bright or good For human nature's daily food ' ; it is fitted...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... | |
| John Ruskin - 1891 - 452 pages
...doing for him constantly. 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...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... | |
| Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pages
...them if he be always with them. But the sky is for all ; bright as it is, it is not ,too bright or good for human nature's daily food;' it is fitted,...the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart; for the soolhing it, and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious,... | |
| Christian Brothers - 1893 - 460 pages
...or of beauty, has this doing for him constantly. The noblest scenes of earth can be seen and knowr but by few: it is not intended that man should live,...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... | |
| John Ruskin - 1894 - 360 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 purify. ing it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious,... | |
| Sir Charles Waldstein - 1894 - 214 pages
...perpetual pleasure. And every man, wherever placed, however far from the other sources of interest or beauty, has this doing for him constantly. The noblest...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... | |
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