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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Page 123
... human artists , reason does not supersede instinct , but is added to an instinct as much more divine than that of the lower animals as the human body is more beautiful than theirs ; that a great singer sings not with less instinct than ...
... human artists , reason does not supersede instinct , but is added to an instinct as much more divine than that of the lower animals as the human body is more beautiful than theirs ; that a great singer sings not with less instinct than ...
Page 182
... human laws . Precisely in the same sense , and with the same certainty , the waters of the world go where they are re- quired . Where the land falls , the water flows . The course neither of clouds nor rivers can be forbidden by human ...
... human laws . Precisely in the same sense , and with the same certainty , the waters of the world go where they are re- quired . Where the land falls , the water flows . The course neither of clouds nor rivers can be forbidden by human ...
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... human intelligence that perceives them ; and on which , in their as- pects of horror and beauty , and their qualities of good and evil , there is engraved a series of myths , or words of the form- ing power , which , according to the ...
... human intelligence that perceives them ; and on which , in their as- pects of horror and beauty , and their qualities of good and evil , there is engraved a series of myths , or words of the form- ing power , which , according to the ...
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