 O come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him, though a lowly creature, One of God's simple children that yet know not The universal Parent, how he sings. As if he wished the firmament of heaven Should listen, and give back to him...  Selections from the Works of John Ruskin - Page 75by John Ruskin - 1908 - 328 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - 1889 - 638 pages
...O, come and bear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him ; — though a lowly creature, One of God's simple children, that yet know not The Universal Parent, lune he sings ! As if he wished the firmament of heaven Should listen, and give back to him the VOice... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1890 - 376 pages
...— O, come and hear him! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him; — though a lowly creature, One of God's simple children, that yet know not The...far His darkness doth transcend our fickle light." " The perfection of both these passages; as far as regards truth and tenderness of imagination in the... | |
 | William Wordsworth, John Morley (viscount) - 1890 - 1012 pages
...' О come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me 1 Been faithless, hear him, though a lowly creature, ' the platform. Mills of this kind used to be, and...particularly near the town of Chalons, where my friend Jones 1 His darkness doth transcend our fickle light ! ' Such was the tender passage, not by me Repeated... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 488 pages
...— O, come and hear him 1 Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him ;— though a lowly creature, One of God's simple children, that yet know not The...far His darkness doth transcend our fickle light. ' " The perfection of both these passages, ns far as regards truth and tenderness of imagination in... | |
 | William H. Wintringham - 1892 - 446 pages
...— Oh, come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him, though a lowly creature, One of God's simple children that yet know not The...that he makes, how far His darkness doth transcend on fickle light." " Wordsworth puts into black and white the heavily marked and stigmatizing contrast... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1892 - 970 pages
...' О come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me ' Been faithless, hear him, though a lowly creature, ' One of God's simple children that yet know not 'The...constancy and love; ' The proclamation that he makes, how fai ' His darkness doth transcend our fickl« light ! ' Such was the tender passage, not by me Repeated... | |
 | W. T. B. Martin, T. E. S. T. - 1894 - 536 pages
...of Eeason." Wordsworth, speaking of the Thrush, thus alludes to the darkness of its Instinct — " he sings As if he wished the firmament of heaven Should listen. . . . His darkness doth transcend our fickle light ! " * We think the subject of the superior intensity... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 476 pages
...— O, come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him ;— though a lowly creature, One of God's simple children, that yet know not The Universal Parent, lime he sings ! As if he wished the firmament of heaven Should listen, and give back to him the voice... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 424 pages
...— O, come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him; — though a lowly creature, One of God's simple children, that yet know not The Universal Parent, June he sings 1 AB if he wished the firmament of heaven Should listen, and give back to him the voice... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 450 pages
...O, come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him ; — though a lowly creature. One of God's simple children that yet know not The...far His darkness doth transcend our fickle light." ' The perfection of both these passages, as far as regards tnith and tenderness of imagination in the... | |
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