 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 556 Seiten
...have felt a bent rose-leaf, yet subdue its feeling in glow of battle, and behave itself like iron. I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal ;...still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honour. § 6- And, though Tightness of moral conduct is ultimately the great purifier of... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1865 - 502 Seiten
...have felt a bent roseleaf, yet subdue its feelings in glow of battle, and behave itself like iron. I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal; but...nature; not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foct; but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk,... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1866 - 374 Seiten
...have felt a bent rose-leaf, yet subdue its feelings in glow of battle, and behave itself like iron. I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal; but...still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honour. And, though Tightness of moral conduct is ultimately the great purifier of race,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 372 Seiten
...have felt a bent rose-leaf, yet subdue its feelings in glow of battle, and behave itself like iron. I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal ;...still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honour. And, though rightness of moral conduct is ultimately the great purifier of race,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 Seiten
...have felt a bent rose-leaf, yet subdue its feeling in glow of battle, and behave itself like iron. I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal ;...still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honour. And, though rightness of moral conduct is ultimately the great purifier of race,... | |
 | Treasury - 1868 - 148 Seiten
...have felt a bent rose-leaf, yet subdue its feeling in glow of battle, . and behave itself like iron. I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal ;...elephantine nature ; not in his insensitive hide, nor his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lifi. his foot if a child lies in his way, and in his sensitive... | |
 | Sarah Annie Frost, S. Annie (Sarah Annie) Frost - 1869 - 190 Seiten
...have felt a bent rose leaf, yet subdue its feelings in glow of battle, and behave itself like iron. I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal; but...more , sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor " Hence it will follow, that one of the probable signs of high breeding in men generally... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1869 - 364 Seiten
...have felt a bent, rose-leaf, yet subdue its feelings in glow of battle, and behave itself like iron. I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal ;...think about him carefully, you will find that his non- vulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature ; not in his insensitive... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1873 - 552 Seiten
...have felt a bent rose-leaf, yet subdue its feeling in glow of battle, and behave itself like iron. I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal ;...still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honour. § 6. And, though rightness of moral conduct is ultimately the great purifter of... | |
 | BEETON - 1875 - 696 Seiten
...subdue its feelings in the glow of battle, and behave itself like iron. " I do not mean to call the elephant a vulgar animal ; but if you think about him carefully, you will find that liis non-vulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature ; not in his insensitive... | |
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Atrides would have felt a bent rose-leaf, yet subdue its feeling in glow of battle, and behave itself like iron. I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal ; but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his non-vulgarity consists in... 
