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... nature , which necessitated total relaxation and vari- ous trips in Italy and Switzerland , where he Traveling seems to have been healed by walking among in Europe . his beloved Alps . For many years thereafter he passed months of his ...
... nature , which necessitated total relaxation and vari- ous trips in Italy and Switzerland , where he Traveling seems to have been healed by walking among in Europe . his beloved Alps . For many years thereafter he passed months of his ...
Page x
... nature of our life , and of its powers and responsibilities should present themselves with absolute sadness and sternness . " 1 His lectures as Slade Professor of Art at Oxford , a post which he held at various times from 1870 to 1883 ...
... nature of our life , and of its powers and responsibilities should present themselves with absolute sadness and sternness . " 1 His lectures as Slade Professor of Art at Oxford , a post which he held at various times from 1870 to 1883 ...
Page xvii
... nature , and compassion , and that what they thought upon any subject was " a matter of no serious impor- tance " ; that they could not be said to have any thoughts 1 The Mystery of Life . His pictur- esque ex- travagance of style . 1 ...
... nature , and compassion , and that what they thought upon any subject was " a matter of no serious impor- tance " ; that they could not be said to have any thoughts 1 The Mystery of Life . His pictur- esque ex- travagance of style . 1 ...
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... natural that country - people should be rude , and towns- people gentle . Whereas I believe that the result of each mode of life may , in some stages of the world's progress , be the exact reverse ; and that another use of words may be ...
... natural that country - people should be rude , and towns- people gentle . Whereas I believe that the result of each mode of life may , in some stages of the world's progress , be the exact reverse ; and that another use of words may be ...
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... Nature only shone hitherto for man between the tossing of helmet - crests ; and sometimes I cannot but think of the trees of the earth as capable of a kind of sorrow , in that imperfect life of theirs , as they opened their in- nocent ...
... Nature only shone hitherto for man between the tossing of helmet - crests ; and sometimes I cannot but think of the trees of the earth as capable of a kind of sorrow , in that imperfect life of theirs , as they opened their in- nocent ...
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Alps architecture Argentière asphodel meadows beauty blue building Castle of Chillon cathedral character church clouds colour Covent Garden Dante dark delight divine earth endeavour English evil expression faith fallacy fancy farther feeling fields flowers garden Giorgione Gothic Gothic architecture Greek heart heaven hills Homer honour human idea Iliad imagination instinct intellect invention kind labour landscape laws less light living Lombardy look Mark's Mark's Place mean mediæval merely mind Modern Painters monotony moral mountain nature ness never noble Odyssey painting partly pass passion pathetic fallacy perfect plain pleasure poet poetical poetry reader rock Ruskin sculpture seen sense soul speak spirit stones Stones of Venice strange strength style suppose things thought tion Titian trees true truth Turner Venetian Venice walls waves whole wild words workman
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Page 70 - Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade; Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade; Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
Page 69 - For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Page xix - Their Superiority in the ART of LANDSCAPE PAINTING to all the Ancient Masters, proved by examples of the True, the Beautiful, and the Intellectual, from the Works of Modern Artists, especially from those of JM Turner, Esq., RA By a GRADUATE of OXFORD.
Page 61 - So, then, we have the three ranks: the man who perceives rightly, because he does not feel, and to whom the primrose is very accurately the primrose, because he does not love it. Then, secondly, the man who perceives wrongly, because he feels, and to whom the primrose is anything else than a primrose: a star, or a sun, or a fairy's shield, or a forsaken maiden.
Page 162 - their bluest veins to kiss" — the shadow as it steals back from them revealing line after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting leaves of acanthus and vine, and mystical signs, all beginning and ending in the Cross; and above them, in the broad archivolts, a continuous chain of language and of...
Page 69 - The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
Page 198 - The Seven Lamps" was to show that certain right states of temper and moral feeling were the magic powers by which all good architecture, without exception, had been produced. "The Stones of Venice" had, from beginning to end, no other aim than to show that the Gothic architecture of Venice had arisen out of, and indicated in all its features, a state of pure national faith, and of domestic...
Page 283 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Page 73 - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, " She is near, she is near;" And the white rose weeps, " She is late;" The larkspur listens, " I hear, I hear;" And the lily whispers,
Page 73 - O come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him, though a lowly creature, One of God's simple children that yet know not The universal Parent, how he sings. As if he wished the firmament of heaven Should listen, and give back to him the voice Of his triumphant constancy and love ; The proclamation that he makes, how far His darkness doth transcend our fickle light...