Sesame and Lillies: Three LecturesCosimo, Inc., 01/10/2006 - 192 من الصفحات 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. |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 33
الصفحة 7
... nature of the world they have to conquer . VI . These two lectures are fragmentary and ill- arranged , but not , I think , diffuse or much compres- sible . The entire gist and conclusion of them , however , is in the last six paragraphs ...
... nature of the world they have to conquer . VI . These two lectures are fragmentary and ill- arranged , but not , I think , diffuse or much compres- sible . The entire gist and conclusion of them , however , is in the last six paragraphs ...
الصفحة 8
... nature and character . You have not been born in a luminous point upon the surface of the globe , where a perfect theology might be expounded to you from your youth up , and where everything you were taught would be true , and ...
... nature and character . You have not been born in a luminous point upon the surface of the globe , where a perfect theology might be expounded to you from your youth up , and where everything you were taught would be true , and ...
الصفحة 15
... nature of real evil . Observe , therefore , carefully in this matter : there are degrees of pain , as degrees of faithfulness , which are altogether conquer- able , and which seem to be merely forms of whole- some trial or discipline ...
... nature of real evil . Observe , therefore , carefully in this matter : there are degrees of pain , as degrees of faithfulness , which are altogether conquer- able , and which seem to be merely forms of whole- some trial or discipline ...
الصفحة 16
... right principle of action here is to consider good and evil as defined by our natural sense of both ; and to strive to promote the one , and to conquer the other , with as hearty endeavor as if there were , indeed , no other 16 PREFACE .
... right principle of action here is to consider good and evil as defined by our natural sense of both ; and to strive to promote the one , and to conquer the other , with as hearty endeavor as if there were , indeed , no other 16 PREFACE .
الصفحة 23
... nature , too palpable to all men : the weak picturesqueness of my earlier writings brought me acquainted with much ... natures that are so fatal in their error , and I leave the words of the " Lilies " unchanged ; believing , yet , that ...
... nature , too palpable to all men : the weak picturesqueness of my earlier writings brought me acquainted with much ... natures that are so fatal in their error , and I leave the words of the " Lilies " unchanged ; believing , yet , that ...
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 161 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...