I beg you once for all to understand that unless you are minded to bring yourselves, and all whom you can help, out of this curse of darkness that has fallen on our hearts and thoughts, you need not try to do any art-work, - it is the vainest of affectations... The Works of John Ruskin - Page 102by John Ruskin - 1906Full view - About this book
| John Ruskin - 1870 - 74 pages
...hawthorn-walks, with children at play in them, as fair as their blossoms. Gentlemen, I tell you once more, unless you are minded to bring yourselves, and all...that cast them are left in deformity and pain. 1. Here, therefore, is the first of your Educational series chosen for you, not that you may try to copy,... | |
| Robert Percival Downes - 1890 - 142 pages
...the pure grass that is good for seed. And now, gentlemen, I beg you once for all to understand that unless you are minded to bring yourselves, and all...things that cast them are left in deformity and pain." Strong and terrible are these words, but not stronger or more terrible than the subject demands, for... | |
| Robert Percival Downes - 1890 - 154 pages
...the pure grass that is good for seed. And now, gentlemen, I beg you once for all to understand that unless you are minded to bring yourselves, and all...our hearts and thoughts, you need not try to do any artwork—it is the vainest of affectations to try to put beauty into shadows, while all the real things... | |
| Sir Edward Tyas Cook - 1890 - 362 pages
...work is on such terms possible. For either the artist must bury himself in idle unrealities —but " it is the vainest of affectations to try to put beauty into shadows, while all real things that cast them are left in deformity and pain,"—or he must be heartless and wanting in... | |
| Henry de Beltgens Gibbins - 1892 - 266 pages
...London ... I beg you," he cries entreatingly and earnestly, " I beg you once for all to understand that unless you are minded to bring yourselves, and all whom you can help, out of this curse of darkness, you need not try to do any artwork — it is the vainest of affectations to try to put beauty into... | |
| John Buchan - 1923 - 746 pages
...utilitarianism and materialism, and at substituting for them the beauty which is also justice and truth. Unless you are minded to bring yourselves and all whom you can help out of this curse of darkness, you need not try to do any art work ; it is the vainest of affectations to try to put beauty into shadows,... | |
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