A Descriptive Catalogue of the Library and Print Room of the Ruskin Museum, Sheffield

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G. Allen, 1890 - 95 Seiten
 

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Seite 59 - And when they had received it they murmured against the goodman of the house, saying, 'These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
Seite 52 - And be sure, also, if the author is worth anything, that you will not get at his meaning all at once ;—nay, that at his whole meaning you will not for a long time arrive in any wise. Not that he does not say what he means, and in strong words too; but he cannot say it all; and what is more strange, will not, but in a hidden way and in parables, in order that he may be sure you want it. I cannot quite see the reason of this, nor analyse that cruel reticence in the breasts of wise men which makes...
Seite 59 - If ye think good, give me my price ; and if not, forbear." So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
Seite 11 - Zoologia Typica : or Figures of new and rare Mammals and Birds, described in the Proceedings or exhibited in the collections of the Zoological Society of London, by Louis Fraser.
Seite 63 - There is nothing going on among us as notable to me as those fierce lightning-bolts Ruskin is copiously and desperately pouring into the black world of Anarchy all around him. No other man in England that I meet has in him the divine rage against iniquity, falsity, and baseness that Ruskin has, and that every man ought to have.
Seite 1 - SACRA PICTORIA: being a Series of Illustrations of the Ancient Versions of the Bible, copied from Illuminated Manuscripts, executed between the Fourth and Sixteenth Centuries. Royal 4to, with 50 beautifully Illuminated Plates, half-bound morocco, .£3 IM.
Seite 56 - AnCHiTECTtrBE is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, for whatsoever uses, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.
Seite 62 - Such as I am, to my own amazement, I stand — so far as I can discern — alone in conviction, in hope, and in resolution, in the wilderness of this modern world. Bred in luxury, which I perceive to have been unjust to others, and destructive to myself ; vacillating, foolish, and miserably failing in all my own conduct in life — and blown about hopelessly by storms of passion...
Seite 44 - THE WHOLE WORKS OF HOMER; PRINCE OF POETTS In his Iliads, and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke, By Geo: Chapman.
Seite 73 - DAME WIGGINS OF LEE AND HER SEVEN WONDERFUL CATS A HUMOROUS TALE WRITTEN PRINCIPALLY BY A LADY OF NINETY EDITED, WITH ADDITIONAL VERSES BY JOHN RUSKIN, LL.D.

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