Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
The text includes a modest amount of Greek, which has been rendered using available fonts. Ruskin used the inverted breve popularized by Richard Porson, an 18th century Greek scholar, for the Greek diacritical mark "persipomeni", which had until the 19th century been printed a...
The text includes a modest amount of Greek, which has been rendered using available fonts. Ruskin used the inverted breve popularized by Richard Porson, an 18th century Greek sc...
2. Part 213. Let us next take example in an art which perhaps you will think (though I hope not) much inferior to rowing, but which is in reality a much higher art--dancing. I have just...
3. Part 332. Now, just imagine what this inherently selfish passion--unconquerable as you will find it by the most deliberate and maintained efforts--fancy what it becomes, when instead...
4. Part 4Whether it has occurred to you or not, I assure you that it is so. The greatest artists, indeed, will condescend, occasionally, to be scientific;--will labour, somewhat systemat...
5. Part 5(The conditions of insanity,[E] delighting in scenes of death, which affect at the present time the arts of revolutionary Europe, were illustrated in the sequel of this lecture:...
6. Part 687. But it is not only the rustic method of architecture which I wish you to note in this plate; it is the rustic method of drawing also. The manner in which these blunt timber...
7. Part 7104. From the sun also, is the only answer, I suppose, possible to physical science. It is not a false answer: quite true, like the other, up to a certain point. To-day, in the...
8. Part 8126. Now, that is the law of all fine artistic work whatsoever; and, more than that, it is, on the whole, perilous to you, and undesirable, that you _should_ know what is there....
9. Part 9Those are my four positions. I will not detain you by dwelling on the first two--that we should know every sort of beast, and know it with its skin on it, and its soul within it...
10. Part 10169. All of you who have ever read your Gospels carefully must have wondered, sometimes, what could be the meaning of those words,--"If any speak against the Son of Man it shall...
11. Part 11191. "Now the King of Trachis, the son of Lucifer, had to wife Halcyone. And he, wishing to consult the oracle of Apollo concerning the state of his kingdom, was forbidden to go...
12. Part 12In giving the natural history of the lion, you do not care materially where such and such a lion was trapped, or how many sheep it had eaten. You want to know what sort of a min...
13. Part 13The Greek word for the round shield is aspis.' I have no doubt, merely a modification, of 'apsis,' the potter's wheel; the proper word for the Gothic shield is 'ecu,' from the L...
14. Part 141. _Generally_:-- drawings by, his own pleasure in them, 84. " leaf-outlines, 217. early boyhood, its tendencies, 41. feeling of increasing age, 104. life of, progressive from h...
15. Part 15Man, his honour of God, 55. " his relation to things above and below him, 30. " not a beast of prey, 63. " "know thyself," a law to, 22-3. " strength of mutual dependence amongs...