| Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - 1879 - 300 páginas
...mosses, but very much may be accomplished in studying them by the aid of a simple lens. 93 what these mosses are ; none are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough — as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all other service is vain from... | |
| Cup - 1880 - 304 páginas
...earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks. No words that I know of will say what these mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect...the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green, the traceries of intricate silver and fringes of amber. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for... | |
| Louisa Macduff - 1880 - 304 páginas
...earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks. No words that I know of will say what these mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect...the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green, the traceries of intricate silver and fringes of amber. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for... | |
| Edward Step - 1881 - 284 páginas
...quiet finger on the trembling stones to teach them rest. No words, that I know of, will say what these mosses . are. None are delicate enough, none perfect...starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine filmed, as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass — the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes... | |
| Edward Step - 1881 - 270 páginas
...quiet finger on the trembling stones to teach them rest. No words, that I know of, will say what these mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect...starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine filmed, as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass — the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes... | |
| Henrietta Louisa Lear - 1882 - 108 páginas
...tender finger on the trembling stones, to teach them resL No words that I know of will say what these mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect...starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine -filmed, as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do grass, — the traceries of intricate silver and fringes... | |
| Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 páginas
...quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest. No words that I know of will say what these mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect...green, — the starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine-filmed, as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass, — the traceries of intricate... | |
| John Ruskin - 1884 - 172 páginas
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| John Ruskin - 1857 - 484 páginas
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| James Eustace Bagnall - 1886 - 144 páginas
...study the Mosses. To quote the glowing words of Ruskin, " No words that I know of will say what these Mosses are, none are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough." In compiling these notes I have availed myself of Wilson's very excellent " Bryologia Britannica,"... | |
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