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to a more rugged nature for contrast and I take 
end of the page, when e would ‘proy esy coming les 
wo: 
eau 
ful See aw as she complains, “expand in their loveliness 
only to 
From am we naturally turn to Macaulay and inquire if his 
essays betray a like influence; at once we find him discoursing of 
flowers from heart of oak 
Ruskin, like Macaulay, and like Matthew Arnold and Whipple, 
among later essayists, often shows no trace of thought of flowers 
for many consecutive pages ; when suddenly the reader will com 
the 
name which he gave to his “Sesame and Lilies” had no little 
part in winning it its way t 
rength of Ruskin’s ee ee flowers is shown when criti- 
h 
which ells on the brightness and our summer 
fruit and flowers? Hunt has of late discovered that primrose 
banks are lovely, but there are other things grow wild besides 
primro eamt-of loveliness migh ring 
ack to us, i ould paint the heath grow: hi 
‘Oo er as it gro 
foxglove and the harebell as they nestle in the clefts of the 
rocks ; bring back a piece of Jura pasture in spring with t 
