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. |
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... thought ( unless through weakness of age ) , I wish to publish a connected series of such parts of my works as now seem to me right , and likely to be of permanent use . In doing so I shall omit much , but not attempt to mend what I ...
... thought ( unless through weakness of age ) , I wish to publish a connected series of such parts of my works as now seem to me right , and likely to be of permanent use . In doing so I shall omit much , but not attempt to mend what I ...
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Three Lectures John Ruskin. to be thought a second volume of 66 fine writer , and partly , as in the Modern Painters , " in the notion of returning as far as I could to what I thought the bet- ter style of old English literature ...
Three Lectures John Ruskin. to be thought a second volume of 66 fine writer , and partly , as in the Modern Painters , " in the notion of returning as far as I could to what I thought the bet- ter style of old English literature ...
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Three Lectures John Ruskin. cost me much thought , and much strong emotion ; but it was foolish to suppose that I ... thoughts then habitually and impatiently putting themselves into forms fit only for emphatic speech : and thus I am ...
Three Lectures John Ruskin. cost me much thought , and much strong emotion ; but it was foolish to suppose that I ... thoughts then habitually and impatiently putting themselves into forms fit only for emphatic speech : and thus I am ...
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... thought of the purposes of the life into which they are entering , and the 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 ...
... thought of the purposes of the life into which they are entering , and the 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 ...
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... thoughts on this matter , and I sup- pose that some girl readers of the second lecture may at the end of it desire to be told summarily what I would have them do and desire in the present state of things . This , then , is what I would ...
... thoughts on this matter , and I sup- pose that some girl readers of the second lecture may at the end of it desire to be told summarily what I would have them do and desire in the present state of things . This , then , is what I would ...
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