The Work of John Ruskin: Its Influence Upon Modern Thought and LifeHarper, 1893 - 200 páginas |
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... picture the literary records give us , and the extant traces and sur- vivals ) the dryness and joylessness of the domestic life among the greater number of the English people fifty years ago , the vulgarity of taste , the meanness or ...
... picture the literary records give us , and the extant traces and sur- vivals ) the dryness and joylessness of the domestic life among the greater number of the English people fifty years ago , the vulgarity of taste , the meanness or ...
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... pictures and works of art - has been strengthened and widened by Rus- kin in the guidance which he gives for a revived and intensified observation of nature herself in a new spirit and with a new method . It is here that I believe ...
... pictures and works of art - has been strengthened and widened by Rus- kin in the guidance which he gives for a revived and intensified observation of nature herself in a new spirit and with a new method . It is here that I believe ...
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... of technical as- pects of landscape - painting , as , for in- stance , the importance he attaches to luminous backgrounds of pictures as sug- gestive or expressive of infinity . This leads him to say ( Modern Painters , II . 39.
... of technical as- pects of landscape - painting , as , for in- stance , the importance he attaches to luminous backgrounds of pictures as sug- gestive or expressive of infinity . This leads him to say ( Modern Painters , II . 39.
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... picture , so that we might mistake it for a man or a cow or a rock , while in many much - admired pict- ures by old masters trees and rocks have not only been robbed of their individual- ity , but endowed with a monstrous com- pound ...
... picture , so that we might mistake it for a man or a cow or a rock , while in many much - admired pict- ures by old masters trees and rocks have not only been robbed of their individual- ity , but endowed with a monstrous com- pound ...
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... pictures them- selves , without any of the painful effort necessary for the execution of these works by the brush or the pencil . He has thereby increased our capital of ennobling pleas- ures , opening out to us fields of delight in the ...
... pictures them- selves , without any of the painful effort necessary for the execution of these works by the brush or the pencil . He has thereby increased our capital of ennobling pleas- ures , opening out to us fields of delight in the ...
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Página 140 - And the great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, - that we manufacture everything there except men; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen, to refine, or to form a single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages.
Página 34 - My work is mine, And, heresy or not, if my hand slacked I should rob God — since He is fullest good — Leaving a blank instead of violins. I say, not God Himself can make man's best Without best men to help Him.
Página 78 - And yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our animal sensations ; we look upon all by which it speaks to us more clearly than to brutes, upon all which bears witness to the intention of the Supreme, that we are to receive more from the covering vault than the light and the dew which we share with the weed and the worm...
Página 140 - We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: — divided into mere segments of men — broken into small fragments and crumbs of life...
Página 107 - Utilitarians, who would turn, if they had their way, themselves and their race into vegetables ; men who think, as far as such can be said to think, that the meat is more than the life, and the raiment than the body ; who look to the earth as a stable, and to its fruit as fodder ; vine-dressers and husbandmen, who love the corn they grind, and the grapes they crush, better than the gardens of the angels upon the slopes of Eden...
Página 103 - ... of pale, penetrable, fleecy wreaths in the heaven, to give light upon the earth, which move together, hand in hand, company by company, troop by troop, so measured in their unity of motion, that the whole heaven seems to roll with them, and the earth to reel under them.
Página 45 - Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it : and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Página 140 - It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: - Divided into mere segments of men - broken into small fragments and crumbs of life; so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.
Página 104 - ... of their silent domes flushing that heaven about them and above them, piercing with purer light through its purple lines of lifted cloud, casting a new glory on every wreath as it passes by, until the whole heaven, one scarlet canopy, is interwoven with a roof of waving flame, and tossing, vault beyond vault, as with the drifted wings of many companies of angels : and * Vignette to Campbell's Last Man.
Página 120 - Political economy (the economy of a State, or of citizens) consists simply in the production, preservation, and distribution, at fittest time and place, of useful or pleasurable things. The farmer who cuts his hay at the right time ; the shipwright who drives his bolts well home in sound wood; the builder who lays good bricks in well-tempered mortar ; the housewife who takes care of her furniture in the...