Proserpina, Vol. 2

Download or read book Proserpina, Vol. 2 written by John Ruskin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proserpina, Vol. 2: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air Was Yet Pure Among the Alps, and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew Nor merely in its oblique setting on the stalk, but in the reversion of its two upper petals, the flower shows this purpose of being fully seen. (for a flower that does hide itself, take a lily of the valley, or the hell of a grape hyacinth, or a cyclamen.) But respecting this matter of petal-reversion, we must now farther state two or three general principles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.