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" Gather a single blade of grass, and examine for a minute, quietly, its narrow sword-shaped strip of fluted green. Nothing, as it seems there, of notable goodness or beauty. A very little strength, and a very little tallness, and a few delicate long lines... "
Selections and Essays - Page 42
by John Ruskin - 1918 - 423 pages
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The Friend of youth, and child's magazine

1862 - 1406 pages
...GRASS. ATHER a single blade of grass, nnd examine for a minute, quietly, its narrow sword - shaped strip of fluted green. Nothing, as it seems there,...and a few delicate long lines meeting in a point, made, as it seems, only to be trodden on to-day, and to-morrow to be cast into the oven ; and a little...
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Modern Painters ...

John Ruskin - 1856 - 452 pages
...blades of grass. Consider a little what a depth there is in this great instinct of the human race. Gather a single blade of grass, and examine for a...unfinished, by no means a creditable or apparently much cared for example of Nature's workmanship ; made, as it seems, only to be trodden on to-day, and to-morrow...
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Modern Painters ...

John Ruskin - 1856 - 450 pages
...blades of grass. Consider a little what a depth there is in this great instinct of the human race. Gather a single blade of grass, and examine for a...unfinished, by no means a creditable or apparently much cared for example of Nature's workmanship ; made, as it seems, only to be trodden on to-day, and to-morrow...
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The Family mirror

1856 - 332 pages
...heen put under the sod ere the spark of life was quite extinet. THE BEACTY AND UTILITY or GRASS. — Gather a single blade of grass, and examine for a...Nothing, as it seems there, of notable goodness or beanty. A very little strength, and a very little talluess, and a few delieate long lines meeting in...
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The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry

Thomas Starr King - 1859 - 438 pages
...to connect with it Mr. Ruskin's analysis of the beauty and apostrophe to the uses of tlie grass ? " Gather a single blade of grass, and examine for a...point neither, but blunt and unfinished, by no means a THE SACO VALLEY creditable or apparently much cared for example of Nature's work manship ; made, as...
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The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion: Selected ...

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 pages
...blades of grass. Consider a little what a depth there is in this great instinct of the human race. Gather a single blade of grass, and examine for a...strength, and a very little tallness, and a few delicate ong lines meeting in a point, — not a perfect point neither. but blunt and unfinished, by no means...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 27

1859 - 534 pages
...blade of grase, and examine for a minute, quietly, it.4 narrow sword-shaped strip of fluted groen. Nothing, as it seems there, of notable goodness or...lines meeting in a point, — not a perfect point either, but blunt and unfinished, by no means a creditable or apparently much cared for exam pie of...
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The True and the Beautiful: In Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion

John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...of grass. Consider a little what a depth there is in this great instinct of the human race. (lather a single blade of grass, and examine for a minute,...strip of fluted green. Nothing, as it seems there, of notahle goodness or beauty. A very little strength, and a very little tallness, and a few delicate...
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The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry

Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 436 pages
...to connect with it Mr. Ruskin's analysis of the beauty and apostrophe to the uses of the grass ? " Gather a single blade of grass, and examine for a...unfinished, by no means a creditable or apparently much cared for example of Nature's workmanship ; made, as it seems, only to be trodden on to-day and tomorrow...
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The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry

Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 446 pages
...to connect with it Mr. Ruskin's analysis of the beauty and apostrophe to the uses of the grass ? " Gather a single blade of grass, and examine for a...point neither, but blunt and unfinished, by no means a 105 creditable or apparently much cared for example of Nature's workmanship ; made, as it seems, only...
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