Sesame and Lillies: Three LecturesCosimo, Inc., 2006 M10 1 - 192 páginas As a vocal critic of art on the whole, British writer JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900) was a profoundly influential voice upon European painting, architecture, aesthetics of the 19th and 20th centuries. This 1865 collection of three lectures-"Of Kings' Treasures," "Of Queens' Gardens," and "Of the Mysteries of Life"-offers an intimate look at his thoughts on culture and humanity's nurturing of its own education. He discusses: . the importance of "valuable books" . the nature of "a civilized country" . the necessity of educating women . advice for living a plain but noble life . and more. Students of art history will in particular find this an enlightening read. |
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... England , having the object of originat- ing , if possible , this movement among them , in true alliance with whatever trustworthy element of help they can find in the higher classes . After these paragraphs , let me ask you to read ...
... England , having the object of originat- ing , if possible , this movement among them , in true alliance with whatever trustworthy element of help they can find in the higher classes . After these paragraphs , let me ask you to read ...
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... England signs of our besetting sins appearing also . Paint and chignons , slang and vaudevilles , knowing " Anony- mas " by name , and reading doubtfully moral novels , are in themselves small offences , although not many years ago they ...
... England signs of our besetting sins appearing also . Paint and chignons , slang and vaudevilles , knowing " Anony- mas " by name , and reading doubtfully moral novels , are in themselves small offences , although not many years ago they ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Alps beauty believe better bishop black bat bread character Christian cloud Coriolanus corn laws creature deceased desire despise Domrémy dress duty earth England English evil faith false fancy feel flowers garden gate girl give Greek Greek alphabet Gustave Doré habit hand happy harebell heart heaven honor hope human instinct Joan of Arc kind King Lear kings labor lady least lecture less lives look Lucerne means Milton mind mystery nation nature ness never noble once Othello Pall Mall Gazette passion peace perhaps person pleasant pleasure Redgauntlet religious respect rightly sensation Shakespeare sheep look soul speak strange strength suppose sure talk teach tell thing thought thousand tion Titian true truth turb vanity vulgar wisdom wise wisest woman women words workhouse wrong youth
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Página 60 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; 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 53 - 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 161 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Página 49 - He is bound to say it clearly, and melodiously if he may; clearly, at all events. In the sum of his life he finds this to be the thing, or group of things, manifest to him; — this the piece of true knowledge, or sight, which his share of sunshine and earth has permitted him to seize. He would fain set it down...
Página 48 - The good book of the hour, then, — I do not speak of the bad ones, — is simply the useful or pleasant talk of some person whom you cannot otherwise converse with, printed for you. Very useful often, telling you what you need to know; very pleasant often, as a sensible friend's present talk would be.
Página 55 - An ordinarily clever and sensible seaman will be able to make his way ashore at most ports ; yet he 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.
Página 117 - But so far as it is a sacred place, a vestal temple, a temple of the hearth watched over by household gods, before whose faces none may come but those whom they can receive with love,— so far as it is this, and roof and fire are types only of a nobler shade and light, shade as of the rock in a weary land, and light as of the Pharos in the stormy sea,— so far it vindicates the name and fulfils the praise of home.
Página 50 - ... 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...
Referencias a este libro
Bedside Seductions: Nursing and the Victorian Imagination, 1830-1880 Catherine Judd Sin vista previa disponible - 1998 |
Images of the Woman Reader in Victorian British and American Fiction Catherine Golden Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |