Selections from Ruskin: On Reading and Other SubjectsGinn & Company, 1892 - 148 páginas |
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Página xi
... truth at all , that it was probably much happier to live in a small house , and have Warwick Castle to be aston- ished at , than to live in Warwick Castle and have nothing to be astonished at ; but that , at all events , it would not ...
... truth at all , that it was probably much happier to live in a small house , and have Warwick Castle to be aston- ished at , than to live in Warwick Castle and have nothing to be astonished at ; but that , at all events , it would not ...
Página xviii
... truth which I have given fifteen years of my life to ascertain , that this man , this Turner , of whom you have known so little while he was living among you , will one day take his place beside Shakespeare and Veru- lam , 1 in the ...
... truth which I have given fifteen years of my life to ascertain , that this man , this Turner , of whom you have known so little while he was living among you , will one day take his place beside Shakespeare and Veru- lam , 1 in the ...
Página xxiii
... truth with rigid care , and to obey orders with the precision of slaves . Then , as they grow older , they are to learn the natural history of the place they live in ; to know Latin , boys and girls both , and the history of five cities ...
... truth with rigid care , and to obey orders with the precision of slaves . Then , as they grow older , they are to learn the natural history of the place they live in ; to know Latin , boys and girls both , and the history of five cities ...
Página xxiv
... truth and natural- ness ; and shall be taught to remember the greatest of them on the days of their birth and death , so that the year shall have its full calendar of reverent memory . on every day part of their morning service shall be ...
... truth and natural- ness ; and shall be taught to remember the greatest of them on the days of their birth and death , so that the year shall have its full calendar of reverent memory . on every day part of their morning service shall be ...
Página 16
... truth and sincerity that are in them , by the place you desire to take in this company of the Dead . " The place you desire , " and the place you fit yourself for , I must also say ; because , observe , this court of the past differs ...
... truth and sincerity that are in them , by the place you desire to take in this company of the Dead . " The place you desire , " and the place you fit yourself for , I must also say ; because , observe , this court of the past differs ...
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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.