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When the French came here, they found only one old man in the dungeons, and he could not speak." Mr. W.D. Howells A gondoliers' quarrel Mr. Sargent's Diploma picture The Barbarigo family Ruskin's sherry Palace hotels The Venetian balcony.
In February 1852 a dinner-party was given to celebrate in his absence John Ruskin's thirty-third birthday. Grant, and Samuel Prout. The latter I never saw in such spirits, and he went away much satisfied. Yesterday at church we were told that he came home very happy, ascended to his painting-room, and in a quarter of an hour from his leaving our cheerful house was a corpse, from apoplexy.
So emphatic a statement deserves more attention than it has received from readers and writers who assume to judge Ruskin's views after a slight acquaintance with his earlier works.
I dress like an ordinary hand, too, though my mother doesn't know that, for I change at the office." "But what good does that do?" "It satisfies my conscience." "And I suppose the men like it?" "No, that's the strange part. They don't. And father only laughs. But one must persist. At Oxford I worked under Ruskin." "Oh, you're an artist!" "No, I didn't mean that part of Ruskin's work.
The letter is often misquoted for the sake of raising a laugh, so that it is not out of place to reprint it as a specimen of the more vehement expressions of this period. The reader of his life must surely see, through the violence of the wording, a perfectly consistent and reasonable expression of Mr. Ruskin's views: "May 19th, 1886.
The widespread delusion of the English educated classes, that they are interested in art, was of Ruskin's making.
This passage recalls one of Ruskin's, which is to be found in "Unto This Last":
Much of Byron's intensity and force is due to the energy of malevolence. The success of Ruskin's earlier writings was due in part to the same cause. In periodical literature, it was pure mechancete that first made the "Saturday Review" successful. At dinner he would eat heartily of many dishes and drink a variety of wines.
The same work was taken up again in "The Laws of Fésole"; but the use of the pure line, which Ruskin's precepts failed to enforce, was, in the end, taught to the public by the charming practice of Mr. Walter Crane and Miss Greenaway.
He says that he is repelled by the ponderous, involved structure of Milton's prose, and he dissents from the applause of Ruskin's style on the ground that it is too self-conscious, and implies too much thought of effect. On the other hand, he has always been attracted by the finished naturalness of Thackeray. A word should here be said about the misconception of Mr.
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