 | 1905 - 606 oldal
...holds neither brush nor chisel ? Out upon the shallow conceit ! What greater sarcasm can Mr. Buskin pass upon himself than that he preaches to young men...talking for forty years of what he has never done ? ' It will be seen that Whistler has shifted the point of controversy from the real battle-ground,... | |
 | 1879 - 794 oldal
...upon himself than that he preaches to young men what he cannot perform ! Why, unsatisfied with his conscious power, should he choose to become the type...talking for forty years of what he has never done ! " Here I leave the two critics, for such they must now be counted, together by the ears, to supply... | |
 | 1879 - 794 oldal
...honesty to have it thus set down." Once more Mr. Whistler asks, " What greater sarcasm can Mr. Ruskin pass upon himself than that he preaches to young men...what he cannot perform ! Why, unsatisfied with his conscious power, should he choose to become the type of incompetence by talking for forty years of... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1879 - 44 oldal
...holds neither brush nor chisel ? Out upon the shallow conceit! What greater sarcasm can Mr. Ruskin pass upon himself than that he preaches to young men...what he cannot perform ! Why, unsatisfied with his conscious power, should he choose to become the type of Art and Art Critics. 17 incompetence by talking... | |
 | Walter Hamilton - 1882 - 146 oldal
...upon himself than that he preaches to young men what he cannot perform ! Why, unsatisfied with his conscious power, should he choose to become the type...talking for forty years of what he has never done ! " There is much that is reasonable in this, and it is easy to call to mind a dozen instances in which... | |
 | Walter Hamilton - 1882 - 162 oldal
...school of art, with a litterateur at its head, disturbs no one. What greater sarcasm can Mr. Buskin pass upon himself than that he preaches to young men...what he cannot perform ! Why, unsatisfied with his conscious power, should he choose to become tthe type of incompetence, by talking for forty years of... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 760 oldal
...1878, St. George's Company, Atlantic Monthly, vol. 42, pp. 47, 48. What greater sarcasm can Mr. Ruskin pass upon himself than that he preaches to young men...university. As master of English literature, he has a ri^ht to his laurels, while, as the populariser of pictures he remains the Peter Parley of pah ting.—... | |
 | American Art Association - 1915 - 180 oldal
...whose writing is art, and whose art is unworthy his writing . . . What greater sarcasm can Mr. Ruskin pass upon himself than that he preaches to young men...what he cannot perform. Why, unsatisfied with his conscious power, should he choose to become the type of incompetence by talking for forty years of... | |
 | Henry James - 1989 - 290 oldal
...pass upon himself than that he preaches to young men what he cannot perform! Why, unsatisfied with his conscious power, should he choose to become the type...talking for forty years of what he has never done I' 1 And Mr. Whistler winds up by pronouncing Mr. Ruskin, of whose writings he has perused, I suspect,... | |
 | Rebecca Beasley - 2007 - 4 oldal
...O'Clock' lecture, and one of his key complaints against Ruskin: 'what greater sarcasm can Mr. Ruskin pass upon himself than that he preaches to young men what he cannot perform!'88 Pound derides art criticism even while he is writing it, remarking that 'even as a boy... | |
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