 ... of it. Lengthen it into hatchet-like edge of iron, strengthen it with complex tracery of ribs of oak, carve it and gild it till a column of light moves beneath it on the sea, you have made no more of it than it was at first. That rude simplicity of...  The Mariner's Mirror - Page 216edited by - 1927Full view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...column of light moves beneath it on the sea, you have made no more of it than it was at first. Tnat rude simplicity of bent plank, that can breast its...shipping. Beyond this, we may have more work, more men, more money ; we cannot have more miracle. For there is first an infinite strangeness in the perfection... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...till a column of light moves beneath it on the sea, you have made no more of it than it was at first. That rude simplicity of bent plank, that can breast...shipping. Beyond this, we may have more work, more men, more money ; we cannot have more miracle. For there is first an infinite strangeness in the perfection... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 470 pages
...till a column of light moves beneath it on the sea, you have made no more of it than it was at first. That rude simplicity of bent plank, that can breast...shipping. Beyond this, we may have more work, more men, more money ; we cannot have more miracle. For there is first an infinite strangeness in the perfection... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...till a column of light moves beneath it on the sen,, you have made no more of it than it was at first. That rude simplicity of bent plank, that can breast...shipping. Beyond this, we may have more work, more men, more money ; we cannot have more miracle. For there is first an infinite strangeness in the perfection... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1884 - 504 pages
...column of light moves beneath it on the sea, you have made no more of it than it was at first. That rudo simplicity of bent plank, that can breast its way...shipping. Beyond this, we may have more work, more men, more money ; we cannot hare more miracle. For there is first an infinite strangeness in the perfection... | |
 | John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 610 pages
...man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced. — Harbors of England, p. 12. THE Bow OF A SHIP.— That rude simplicity of bent plank that can breast...shipping. Beyond this we may have more work, more men, more money; we cannot have more miracle. . . . The boat's bow is naively perfect : complete without... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1895 - 630 pages
...column of light moves beneath it on the sea, — you have muAc mi more of it than it was at tiret. That rude simplicity of bent plank, that can breast its way through the death that is in tin; deep sea, has in it the soul of shipping. Beyond this, we may have more work, more men, more money... | |
 | Henry F. Euren - 1891 - 218 pages
...was at first. That rude of England. simpliciiy of bent plank, that can breast its way through I he death that is in the deep sea, has in it the soul of shipping. Beyond this, we may 1'ave more work, more men, more money ; we cannot have more miracle. For there is first an infinite... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1899 - 350 pages
...no more of it than it was at first. That rude simplicity of bent plank, that [? should be ' which'] can breast its way through the death that is in the...shipping. Beyond this, we may have more work, more men, more money; we cannot have more miracle.' The whole passage is loaded with imagery, with fancy,... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1903 - 384 pages
...till a column of light moves beneath it on the sea, you have made no more of it than it was at first. That rude simplicity of bent plank, that can breast...shipping. Beyond this, we may -have more work, more men, more money ; we cannot have more miracle. For there is first an infinite strangeness in the perfection... | |
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