Selections from Ruskin ...Ginn, 1895 - 148 páginas |
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Página ix
... watch a wasp on the window pane , or a bird in the cherry - tree ; and I had never seen any grief . " " Next to this quite priceless gift of Peace , I had re- ceived the perfect understanding of the nature of Obedi- ence and Faith . I ...
... watch a wasp on the window pane , or a bird in the cherry - tree ; and I had never seen any grief . " " Next to this quite priceless gift of Peace , I had re- ceived the perfect understanding of the nature of Obedi- ence and Faith . I ...
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... watch a seagull fly than shoot it , and rather hear a thrush sing than eat it ; finally , because I never dis- obeyed my mother , because I have honored all women with solemn worship , and have been kind even to the un- thankful and the ...
... watch a seagull fly than shoot it , and rather hear a thrush sing than eat it ; finally , because I never dis- obeyed my mother , because I have honored all women with solemn worship , and have been kind even to the un- thankful and the ...
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... watch them . Remember , then , that I , at least , have warned you , that the happiness of your life , and its power , and its part and rank on earth or in heaven , depend on the way you pass your days now . They are not to be sad days ...
... watch them . Remember , then , that I , at least , have warned you , that the happiness of your life , and its power , and its part and rank on earth or in heaven , depend on the way you pass your days now . They are not to be sad days ...
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... about reading , which press themselves upon me every day more deeply , as I watch the course of the public 1 From " Sesame and Lilies " ( Sesame - Kings ' Treasuries ) . · - mind with respect to our daily enlarging means 6 JOHN RUSKIN .
... about reading , which press themselves upon me every day more deeply , as I watch the course of the public 1 From " Sesame and Lilies " ( Sesame - Kings ' Treasuries ) . · - mind with respect to our daily enlarging means 6 JOHN RUSKIN .
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... watch the golden balls of heaven tossed through the night by the Hand that made them ? There is a mean curiosity ... watch , or ought to watch , the dealings of fate and destiny with the life of an agonized nation ? Alas ! it is the ...
... watch the golden balls of heaven tossed through the night by the Hand that made them ? There is a mean curiosity ... watch , or ought to watch , the dealings of fate and destiny with the life of an agonized nation ? Alas ! it is the ...
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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...