Selections from Ruskin: On Reading and Other SubjectsGinn & Company, 1892 - 148 páginas |
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... anything to disturb me when my task was set ; if it was not said rightly by twelve o'clock , I was kept in till I knew it , and in general , even when Latin grammar came to supplement the Psalms , I was my vi JOHN RUSKIN .
... anything to disturb me when my task was set ; if it was not said rightly by twelve o'clock , I was kept in till I knew it , and in general , even when Latin grammar came to supplement the Psalms , I was my vi JOHN RUSKIN .
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... rightly and energetically . It might be beyond me altogether ; that she did not care about ; but she made sure that as soon as I got hold of it all , I should get hold of it by the right end . " - " In this way she began with the first ...
... rightly and energetically . It might be beyond me altogether ; that she did not care about ; but she made sure that as soon as I got hold of it all , I should get hold of it by the right end . " - " In this way she began with the first ...
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... rightly - thinking creature , as that of dawn . But not only in that beautiful sense , but in all their character and method , they are . to be solemn days . Take your Latin dictionary , and look out “ sollen- nis , " and fix the sense ...
... rightly - thinking creature , as that of dawn . But not only in that beautiful sense , but in all their character and method , they are . to be solemn days . Take your Latin dictionary , and look out “ sollen- nis , " and fix the sense ...
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... rightly , you will easily discover the true bits , and those are the book . - Now books of this kind have been written in all ages by their greatest men ; -by great leaders , great statesmen , and great thinkers . These are all at your ...
... rightly , you will easily discover the true bits , and those are the book . - Now books of this kind have been written in all ages by their greatest men ; -by great leaders , great statesmen , and great thinkers . These are all at your ...
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... rightly ; above all , he is learned in the peerage of words ; knows the words of true descent and ancient blood at a glance , from words of modern canaille 2 ; remembers all their ancestry- their intermar- riages , distantest ...
... rightly ; above all , he is learned in the peerage of words ; knows the words of true descent and ancient blood at a glance , from words of modern canaille 2 ; remembers all their ancestry- their intermar- riages , distantest ...
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Página 24 - The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Página 24 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths!
Página 87 - For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky, To faint in the light of the sun she loves, To faint in his light, and to die. All...
Página 125 - Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Página 68 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Página 126 - This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Página 15 - ... here, and audience there, when all the while this eternal court is open to you, with its society, wide as the world, multitudinous as its days, — the chosen and the mighty of every place and time...
Página 19 - ... the accent, or turn of expression of a single sentence, will at once mark a scholar. And this is so strongly felt, so conclusively admitted, by educated persons, that a false accent or a mistaken syllable is enough, in the parliament of any civilized nation, to assign to a man a certain degree of inferior standing for ever.
Página 68 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower ; Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own.
Página 39 - No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it, as a soldier can seize the weapon he needs in an armoury, or a housewife bring the spice she needs from her store.