Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
That, then, was to be our work. Alas! what work have we set ourselves upon instead! How have we ravaged the garden instead of kept it--feeding our war-horses with its flowers, and splintering its trees into spear-shafts!
These characters are here expressed as belonging to the building; as belonging to the builder, they would be expressed thus:--1. Savageness, or Rudeness. 2. Love of Change. 3. L...
8. Chapter 8My reason for asking the reader to give so much of his time to the examination of the pathetic fallacy was, that, whether in literature or in art, he will find it eminently char...
4. Chapter 4In taking up the clue of an inquiry, now intermitted for nearly ten years, it may be well to do as a traveller would, who had to recommence an interrupted journey in a guideless...
7. Chapter 7Now, therefore, putting these tiresome and absurd words[52] quite out of our way, we may go on at our ease to examine the point in question,--namely, the difference between the...
11. Chapter 11Born half-way between the mountains and the sea--that young George of Castelfranco--of the Brave Castle:--Stout George they called him, George of Georges, so goodly a boy he was...
13. Chapter 13"And so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus." If as the shores of Asia lessened upon his sight, the spirit of prophecy had entered into the heart of the weak disciple who...
10. Chapter 10We turn our eyes, therefore, as boldly and as quickly as may be, from these serene fields and skies of mediæval art, to the most characteristic examples of modern landscape. And...
12. Chapter 12In the olden days of travelling, now to return no more, in which distance could not be vanquished without toil, but in which that toil was rewarded, partly by the power of delib...
6. Chapter 6Having now obtained, I trust, clear ideas, up to a certain point, of what is generally right and wrong in all art, both in conception and in workmanship, we have to apply these...
2. Chapter 2I have dwelt, in the foregoing chapter, on the sadness of the hills with the greater insistence that I feared my own excessive love for them might lead me into too favourable in...
5. Chapter 5In the outset of this inquiry, the reader must thoroughly understand that we are not now considering _what_ is to be painted, but _how far_ it is to be painted. Not whether Raph...
1. Chapter 1That, then, was to be our work. Alas! what work have we set ourselves upon instead! How have we ravaged the garden instead of kept it--feeding our war-horses with its flowers, a...
3. Chapter 3Stand upon the peak of some isolated mountain at daybreak, when the night mists first rise from off the plains, and watch their white and lake-like fields, as they float in leve...
9. Chapter 9[110] Flodden, Flodden Field, a plain in Northumberland, famous as the battlefield where James IV of Scotland was defeated by an English army under the Earl of Surrey, Sept. 9,...