 While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious...  Is Life Worth Living? - Page 159by William Hurrell Mallock - 1879 - 328 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1895 - 722 pages
...Yet once more let us quote from the author whom we have attempted but unsatisfactorily to pourtray. " While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend. Not to discriminate every moment... | |
 | Scotland - 1873 - 790 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the age that makes nny two persons, things, situations, ncem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...passion, or any contribution to knowledge, that seems, by u lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odors, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend. Not to discriminate every moment some passionate... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 606 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two things, persons, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or the work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.' Now, let us ask ourselves... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 576 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two things, persons, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or the work of tbe artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.' Now, let us ask ourselves... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame - Europe - 1878 - 388 pages
...irresistibly real and attractive for us." And thus, "while all melts under our feet," he goes on, " we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any...strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odors, or the work of the artist's hand, or the face of one's friend." Here then are two sets of teachers, who profess,... | |
 | sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 626 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to our knowledge that seems, by a lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1880 - 278 pages
...irresistibly real and attractive for us." And thus, " while all melts under our feet," he goes on, " we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any...strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odors, or the work of the artist's hand, or the face of one's friend." Here then are two sets of teachers, who profess,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1887 - 222 pages
...Waller. cess in life. Failure is to form Tiabits; for habit is relation to a stereotyped world . . . while all melts under our feet, we may well catch...lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment." I would not quote Lord Chesterfield as generally a safe guide, but there is certainly much shrewd wisdom... | |
 | Walter Pater - Art, Renaissance - 1888 - 284 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or , the face of one's friend. Not to discriminate... | |
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