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 93
... renders the ordinary course of life unin- teresting , and increases the morbid thirst for useless ac- quaintance ... rendered so violent and one - sided , that their vitality is rather a harm than good . Without , however , venturing ...
... renders the ordinary course of life unin- teresting , and increases the morbid thirst for useless ac- quaintance ... rendered so violent and one - sided , that their vitality is rather a harm than good . Without , however , venturing ...
Page 154
... rendered , " for a servant's work is not necessarily or always the best thing he can give his master . But good of ... rendering every one of the ordinary political econ- omist's calculations nugatory ; while , even if he desired to ...
... rendered , " for a servant's work is not necessarily or always the best thing he can give his master . But good of ... rendering every one of the ordinary political econ- omist's calculations nugatory ; while , even if he desired to ...
Page 346
... rendered . He is a man ten times greater than Leonardo ; -a mighty col- ourist , while Leonardo was only a fine draughtsman in black , staining the chiaroscuro drawing , like a coloured print : he perceived and rendered the delicatest ...
... rendered . He is a man ten times greater than Leonardo ; -a mighty col- ourist , while Leonardo was only a fine draughtsman in black , staining the chiaroscuro drawing , like a coloured print : he perceived and rendered the delicatest ...
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