 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 444 pages
...Wordsworth always, as of the daffodils, and the celandine. " It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold. This neither is its courage, nor its choice, But its necessity in being old," — * I would have Mr. Landseer, before he gives us any more writhing otters, or yelping packs, reflect... | |
 | John Eglinton, William Kirkpatrick Magee - 1894 - 70 pages
...humanity ; and if, beholding the prolonged decay of that great celandine, I can mutter free from spleen, ' This neither is its courage nor its choice, But its necessity in being old ' — to whom do I owe it but unto thee, mild light of the nineteenth century, whose name was as a... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 508 pages
...shower, nor seek the cold This neither is ita courage, nor its choice But its necessity in heing old," _ and so all other great poets (that is to say, great seers ; f) * I would have Mr. Landseer, hefore be jrives „ otters, or yelping packs, reflect whether that... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Andrew Lang - 1897 - 342 pages
...and storm. I stopped, and said with inly- muttered voice, " It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold : This neither is its courage nor its choice, But its necessity in being old. " The sunshine may not cheer it, nor the dew ; It cannot help itself in its decay ; Stiff in its members,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 350 pages
...and storm. I stopped, and said with inly-muttered voice, " It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold : This neither is its courage nor its choice, But its necessity in being old. " The sunshine may not cheer it, nor the dew ; It cannot help itself in its decay; Stiff in its members,... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1897 - 272 pages
...rain, it serves as a warning of the fate of men : — " ' It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold : This neither is its courage nor its choice, But its necessity in being old.' . . . To be a Prodigal's Favourite — then, worse truth, A Miser's Pensioner — behold our lot !... | |
 | Ida Maria Street - 1901 - 484 pages
...Wordsworth always, as of the daffodils, and the celandine, "It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold, This neither is its courage, nor its choice,...however rude, is without some slight perception or acknowledgement of joyfulness in breathless things, as most certainly there are none but feel instinctive... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1901 - 494 pages
...and storm. I stopp'd and said, with inly-mutter'd voice, " It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold This neither is its courage nor its choice, But its necessity in being old. " The sunshine may not cheer it, nor the dew ; It cannot help itself in its decay; Stiff in its members,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1902 - 394 pages
...and storm. I stopp'd and said, with inly-mutter'd voice, ' It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold ; This neither is its courage nor its choice, But its necessity in being old. ' The sunshine may not cheer it, nor the dew ; It cannot help itself in its decay ; Stiff in its members,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 524 pages
...Wordsworth always, as of the daffodils and the celandine: " It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold. This neither is its courage, nor its choice,...necessity in being old : " and so all other great poets ;t nor do I believe that any mind, however rude, is without some slight perception or * This third... | |
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It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold : This neither is its courage nor its choice, But its necessity in being old. " The sunshine may not cheer it, nor the dew ; It cannot help itself in its decay ; Stiff in its members, withered, changed of... 
