Selections from Ruskin ...Ginn, 1895 - 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 of ...
... 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 of ...
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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 - 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 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 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 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 93 - Fire!' is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then ? Simpleton ! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting...
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 18 - And, therefore, first of all, I tell you earnestly and authoritatively (I know I am right in this), you must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable — nay, letter by letter.
Página 93 - Nevertheless, amid much weeping and swearing, they are selected, all dressed in red, and shipped away, at the public charges, some two thousand miles, or say only to the south of Spain, and fed there till wanted. "And now to that same spot in the south of Spain are thirty similar French artisans, from a French Dumdrudge, in like manner wending ; till at length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition ; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun jn his hand. "...
Página 20 - ... has only to speak a sentence of any language to be known for an illiterate person : so also 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...