Frondes agrestes. Readings in 'Modern painters' [by J. Ruskin], chosen by the younger lady of the Thwaite, Coniston [S. Beever].1875 |
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... half- divine , a gift which would go so far as to raise us into the rank , and invest us with the felici- ties of angels . * 11. I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility . I do not mean by humility , doubt of his ...
... half- divine , a gift which would go so far as to raise us into the rank , and invest us with the felici- ties of angels . * 11. I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility . I do not mean by humility , doubt of his ...
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... half portrait — of the outside , the manners and the dress , not of the heart . Thus Tintoret and Shakspeare paint , both of them , simply Venetian and English nature , as they saw it in their time , down to the root ; and it does for ...
... half portrait — of the outside , the manners and the dress , not of the heart . Thus Tintoret and Shakspeare paint , both of them , simply Venetian and English nature , as they saw it in their time , down to the root ; and it does for ...
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... half overgrown with thicket , deserted in their sweetness , inaccessible from above , and rarely visited by any curious wan- derers along the hardly traceable footpath which struggles for existence beneath the rocks . And there the ...
... half overgrown with thicket , deserted in their sweetness , inaccessible from above , and rarely visited by any curious wan- derers along the hardly traceable footpath which struggles for existence beneath the rocks . And there the ...
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... half glade , half avenue , where the gate opens , or the gateless path turns trustedly aside , unhindered , into the garden of some statelier house , surrounded in rural pride with its golden hives , and carved granaries , and irregular ...
... half glade , half avenue , where the gate opens , or the gateless path turns trustedly aside , unhindered , into the garden of some statelier house , surrounded in rural pride with its golden hives , and carved granaries , and irregular ...
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... half of the strange plea- sures and thoughts that come about me at the sight of that old tower ; for , in some sort , it is the epitome of all that makes the con- tinent of Europe interesting , as opposed to new countries ; and , above ...
... half of the strange plea- sures and thoughts that come about me at the sight of that old tower ; for , in some sort , it is the epitome of all that makes the con- tinent of Europe interesting , as opposed to new countries ; and , above ...
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Page 148 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Page 113 - For he is the Lord our God : and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Page 96 - I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
Page 55 - The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Page 114 - For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field : And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Page 62 - I say unto you, Swear not at all : neither by heaven ; for it is God's throne : nor by the earth ; for it is his footstool...
Page 169 - Perhaps there is no more impressive scene on earth than the solitary extent of the Campagna of Rome under evening light. Let the reader imagine himself for a moment withdrawn from the sounds and motion of the living world, and sent forth alone into this wild and wasted plain. The earth yields and crumbles beneath his foot, tread he never so lightly, for its substance is white, hollow, and carious, like the dusty wreck of the bones of men. The long knotted grass waves and tosses feebly in...
Page 14 - ... can do and say, and the rest of the world's sayings and doings. All great men not only know their business, but usually know that they know it; and are not only right in their main opinions, but they usually know that they are right in them; only, they do not think much of themselves on that account. Arnolfo knows he can build a good dome at Florence; Albert Durer writes calmly to one who had found fault with his work, "It cannot be better done...
Page 38 - ... it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, nor in the clash of the hail, nor the drift of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed. God is not in the earthquake, nor in the fire : but in the still, small voice.
Page 133 - Consider what we owe merely to the meadow grass, to the covering of the dark ground by that glorious enamel, by the companies of those soft, and countless, and peaceful spears.