The Works of John Ruskin, Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford, Issue 68, Volume 10Smith, Elder, 1878 |
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Page 66 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Page 191 - The law of nature is, that a certain quantity of work is necessary to produce a certain quantity of good, of any kind whatever. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it.
Page 193 - Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Page 211 - And Menahem exacted the money of Israel even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.
Page 11 - The great poets of Scotland, like the great poets of all other countries, never write dissolutely, either in matter or method ; but with stern and measured meaning in every syllable. Here's a bit of first-rate work for example : — " Tweed said to Till, ' What gars ye rin sae still ? ' Till said to Tweed, ' Though ye rin wi' speed, And I rin slaw, Whar ye droon ae man, I droon twa.
Page 45 - Ask yourselves what is the leading motive which actuates you while you are at work. I do not ask you what your leading motive is for working — that is a different thing; you may have families to support — parents to help — brides to win ; you may have all these, or other such sacred and pre-eminent motives, to press the morning's labour and prompt the twilight...
Page 54 - Rembrandt is popular,* but nobody cares much at heart about Titian ; only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they...
Page 78 - Get rid, then, at once of any idea of Decorative art being a degraded or a separate kind of art. Its nature or essence is simply its being fitted for a definite place ; and, in that place, forming part of a great and harmonious whole, in companionship with other art...
Page 104 - Charles's times, with mullioned windows and a low arched porch ; round which, in the little triangular garden, one can imagine the family as they used to sit in old summer times, the ripple of the river heard faintly through the sweetbriar hedge, and the sheep on the far-off wolds shining in the evening sunlight. There, uninhabited for many and many a year, it had been left in unregarded havoc of ruin ; the garden-gate still swung loose to its latch; the garden, blighted utterly into a field of ashes,...
Page 208 - All the kingdoms of the world put together are not half so large as the sea, and all the railroads and wheels that ever were, or will be, invented are not so easy as fins. | You will find on fairly thinking of it, that it is his Restraint which is...