...ement, on which in due season one strong thought rises, like an ocean-crest, and breaks, and sweeps onward, lavishing itself in splendor! What a glorious gift of heaven would have been the style of Ruskin , for instance, could he but have contained himself, and put forth only half his strength, instead of always planting, in the words of old Fuller, a piece of ordnance to batter down an aspen-leaf ! ...