 ... 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
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - 1903 - 304 pages
...than the passage on the common sea-boat in Harbours of England (1856). "That rude simplicity of the bent plank that can breast its way through the death...in the deep sea, has in it the soul of shipping." . . . The sea piece that follows, "To war with that living fury of waters" ... is unequalled even by... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1904 - 950 pages
...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. 2. For there is, first, an infinite strangeness in the... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 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,... | |
 | 1910 - 640 pages
...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." Birds of passage form their flocks like this, to breast... | |
 | Burt Estes Howard - 1914 - 144 pages
...boat, the " blunt head of a common, undecked sea-boat, lying aside in its furrow of beach sand. . . . 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 man who made it knew not that he was making... | |
 | Daniel Jones - 1914 - 112 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... | |
 | Félix François Boillot - 1924 - 176 pages
...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...way through the death that is in the deep sea, has 25 in it the soul of shipping. Beyond this we may have more work, more men, more money : we cannot... | |
 | Edmund Noble - 1926 - 602 pages
...is in that. You may magnify it or decorate it as you will: you will not add to the wonder of it. ... That rude simplicity of bent plank that can breast...is in the deep sea has in it the soul of shipping. . . . Then also it is wonderful on account of the greatness of the enemy that it does battle with.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1927 - 254 pages
...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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