Selections from RuskinUniversity Press, 1927 - 212 páginas |
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Abbotsford Albert of Nuremberg architect architecture artist Athena beauty Bertuccio Valier beside blue Brunelleschi calm Carpaccio Cimabue Cistercian cloud colour creature dark death delight dome of Florence drawing Dürer earth English expression eyes faith false feeling feet flowers Frank Bramley Giorgione Giotto give Gothic architecture grace grass Greek green hand happy heart heaven hills honour human Iliad imagination kind labour less light living look Macugnaga marble Michael Angelo mind Modern Painters moral mountain nature never Niccola Pisano noble painting partly passion pathetic fallacy perfect perhaps persons picture pine pleasure rest rock round ruin Ruskin Scott sculptor seen shadow shore side sorrow soul spirit Stones of Venice strength strong sunshine temper things thought true Turner Unto this Last Venetian vulgar walls waves wind windmill wings words write
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Página 43 - Mark's lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstasy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam, and toss themselves far into the blue sky in flashes and wreaths of sculptured spray, as if the breakers on the Lido shore had been frost-bound before they fell, and the sea nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst.
Página 45 - What else there is of light is from torches, or silver lamps, burning ceaselessly in the recesses of the chapels; the roof sheeted with gold, and the polished walls covered with alabaster, give back at every curve and angle some feeble gleaming to the flames...
Página 44 - ... empty journals; in its centre the Austrian bands play during the time of vespers, their martial music jarring with the organ notes — the march drowning the miserere, and the sullen crowd thickening round them — a crowd, which, if it had its will, would stiletto every soldier that pipes to it. And in the recesses of the porches, all day long, knots of men of the lowest classes, unemployed and listless, lie basking in the sun like lizards; and unregarded children — every heavy glance of their...
Página 39 - ... on their stony scales by the deep russet-orange lichen, melancholy gold; and so, higher still, to the bleak towers, so far above that the eye loses itself among the bosses of their traceries, though they are rude and strong, and only sees like a drift of eddying black points, now closing, now scattering, and now settling suddenly into invisible places among the bosses and flowers, the crowd of restless birds that fill the whole square with that strange clangor of theirs, so harsh and yet so soothing,...
Página 45 - Under foot and over head, a continual succession of crowded imagery, one picture passing into another, as in a dream; forms beautiful and terrible mixed together; dragons and serpents, and ravening beasts of prey, and graceful birds that in the midst of them drink from running fountains and feed from vases of crystal; the passions and the pleasures of human life symbolised together...
Página 42 - their bluest veins to kiss " — the shadow, as it steals back from them, revealing line after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand ; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting leaves of acanthus and vine, and mystical signs, all beginning and ending in the Cross ; and above them, in the broad archivolts, a continuous chain of language...
Página 82 - Gather a single blade of grass, and examine for a minute, quietly, its narrow sword-shaped strip of fluted green. Nothing, as it seems there, of notable goodness or beauty. A very little strength, and a very little tallness, and a few delicate long lines meeting in a point, — not a perfect point neither, but blunt and unfinished, by no means a creditable or apparently much cared-for example of Nature's workmanship ; made, as it seems, only to be trodden on to-day, and to-morrow to be cast into...
Página 191 - Now, therefore, putting these tiresome and absurd words quite out of our way, we may go on at our ease to examine the point in question, — namely, the difference between the ordinary, proper, and true appearances of things to us; and the extraordinary, or false appearances, when we are under the influence of emotion, or contemplative fancy...
Página 180 - Five great intellectual professions, relating to daily necessities of life, have hitherto existed — three exist necessarily, in every civilized nation: The Soldier's profession is to defend it. The Pastor's, to teach it. The Physician's, to keep it in health. The Lawyer's, to enforce justice in it. The Merchant's, to provide for it. And the duty of all these men is, oa due occasion, to die for it. "On due occasion," namely: The Soldier, rather than leave his post in battle.
Página 83 - Follow but forth for a little time the thoughts of all that we ought to recognize in those words. All spring and summer is in them, — the walks by silent, scented paths, — the rests in noonday heat,— the joy of herds and flocks, — the power of all shepherd life and meditation, — the life of sunlight upon the world, falling in emerald streaks, and falling in soft blue shadows, where else it would have struck upon the dark mould, or scorching dust...