Ruskin: Sesame and lilies. Unto this last. The Queen of the air. The storm cloud of the nineteenth centuryDana Estes & Company, 1856 |
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... feel with them , we must be like them ; and none of us can become that without pains . As the true knowledge is ... feeling possible to humanity is in itself wrong , but only wrong when undisciplined . Its nobility is in its force and ...
... feel with them , we must be like them ; and none of us can become that without pains . As the true knowledge is ... feeling possible to humanity is in itself wrong , but only wrong when undisciplined . Its nobility is in its force and ...
Page 126
... feeling itself wholly innocent , which leads it farther astray , until there is nothing that it is not capable of ... feel even farther and farther from at- taining , the more they strive for it . And yet , in still deeper sense , it ...
... feeling itself wholly innocent , which leads it farther astray , until there is nothing that it is not capable of ... feel even farther and farther from at- taining , the more they strive for it . And yet , in still deeper sense , it ...
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... feel distinctly that the literal " splendour , " with its relative shade , are prevalent in the concep- tion ; and that there is always a tendency to look through the nue to its cause . And in this feeling about colour the Greeks are ...
... feel distinctly that the literal " splendour , " with its relative shade , are prevalent in the concep- tion ; and that there is always a tendency to look through the nue to its cause . And in this feeling about colour the Greeks are ...
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æther Alps Athena beautiful become blue body breath calm Camarina catallactic character Chimæra cloud colour creature dark death Demeter depends earth economists electric cloud English entirely Erechtheum evil eyes fact farther fire flowers force give given gold Greek Greek art ground hand Harpies heart heaven Hephæstus Hermes Homer honour human idea Iliad justice kind labour lecture less light live look matter means merely Milan Cathedral mind modern Mont Blanc moral myths nation nature Nemean Lion ness never noble observe once passion perfect perhaps persons Pindar plague-wind political economy produce pure quantity question rain reader respecting rich rock sense serpent soul spirit strange strength sunset suppose tell things thought tion true truth vapour Voirons wages wealth weather wholly wind wise word