 ... rock, they share also its endurance ; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip-gold, — far above, among the mountains, the silver...  Temple Bar - Página 53editado por - 1888Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 páginas
...he says, "Far above, among the mountains, the Silver Lichen spots rest, starlike, on the stone ; and the gathering orange stain upon the edge of yonder...western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years." The well-known Iceland Moss, which is a Lichen, was found by myself growing on Bidston Hill. It would... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 506 páginas
...cowslip gold, far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen-spots rest, starlike, on the stone ; and the gathering orange stain, upon the edge of yonder...western peak, reflects the sunsets of a thousand years. — British Quarterly Review. •igOLITICAL DISSENTERS. TATE are not to be deterred in our work by... | |
 | 1873 - 500 páginas
...cowslip gold far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen spots rest starlike on the stones, and the gathering orange stain upon the edge of yonder...western peak, reflects the sunsets of a thousand years.' " " That is indeed masterly eloquence!" exclaimed Miss Lane, "such command over the English language... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 556 páginas
...cowslip-gold, — far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen-spots rest, star-like, on the stone ; and the gathering orange stain upon the edge of yonder...western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years. PART VII. OF CLOUD BEAUTY. CHAPTER I. THE CLOUD-BALANCINGS. § i. WE have seen that when the earth... | |
 | Crosthwaite and co - 1860 - 622 páginas
...cowslip gold, far above among the mountains, the silver lichen-spots rest star-like on the stone, and the gathering orange stain upon the edge of yonder...western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years." In treating of the second portion of the first half of tho book, " Cloud Beauty," briefness is now... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 páginas
...cowslip gold, far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen-spots rest, starlike, on the stone ; and the gathering orange stain, upon the edge of yonder...western peak, reflects the sunsets of a thousand years." The next part is entitled Cloud Beauty ; for " between the earth and man arose the leaf. Between the... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1861 - 320 páginas
...the mountains, the silver lichen-spots rest, starlike on the stone, and the gathering orange-stain upon the edge of yonder western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years." FOOTNOTES THE PAGE OF NATUKE. CHAPTER I.— MOSSES. "And upon the top of the pillars was lily-work."... | |
 | 1861 - 588 páginas
...mountains, the silver lichen spots rest, star-like, on the stone, and the gathering orange stain on the edge of yonder western peak, reflects the sunsets of a thousand years.— Buskin, SKIMMING MILK. — Our women have a way of taking off the cream without the use of the skimmer.... | |
 | 1861 - 636 páginas
...mountains, the silver lichen-spots rest, starlike, on the stone ; and the gathering orange stain up on the edge of yonder western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years." (Vol. V. pp. 107, 108.) " It was intended, and created by Deity, for the covering of those lonely spots... | |
 | 1861 - 634 páginas
...mountains, the silver lichen-spots rest, starlike, on the stone ; and the gathering orange stain up on the edge of yonder western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years." (Vol. V. pp. 107, 108.) " It was intended, and created by Deity, for the covering of those lonely spots... | |
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