The Works of John Ruskin, Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford: Sesame and lilies. Rev. and enl. ed., 1871Smith, Elder, 1871 |
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ix. oldal
... things . This , then , is what I would say to any girl who had confidence enough in me to believe what I told her , or do what I asked her . First , be quite sure of one thing , that , however much you may know , and whatever advantages ...
... things . This , then , is what I would say to any girl who had confidence enough in me to believe what I told her , or do what I asked her . First , be quite sure of one thing , that , however much you may know , and whatever advantages ...
x. oldal
... thing to make sure of ; - that you are not yet perfectly well informed on the most abstruse of all possible subjects , and that , if you care to behave with modesty or propriety , you had better be silent about it . The second thing ...
... thing to make sure of ; - that you are not yet perfectly well informed on the most abstruse of all possible subjects , and that , if you care to behave with modesty or propriety , you had better be silent about it . The second thing ...
xi. oldal
... ; " and His second , " Be merciful while you have mercy . " " Work while you have light , " especially while you have the light of morning . There are few things now . more wonderful to me than that old people PREFACE . xi.
... ; " and His second , " Be merciful while you have mercy . " " Work while you have light , " especially while you have the light of morning . There are few things now . more wonderful to me than that old people PREFACE . xi.
xiii. oldal
... thing to look at than the face , and for that very reason it needs more looking at ; so always have two mirrors on your toilet table , and see that with proper care you dress body and mind before them daily . After the dressing is once ...
... thing to look at than the face , and for that very reason it needs more looking at ; so always have two mirrors on your toilet table , and see that with proper care you dress body and mind before them daily . After the dressing is once ...
xiv. oldal
... thing to make sure you can do . Get your voice disciplined and clear , and think only of accuracy ; never of effect or expression : if you have any soul worth expressing it will show itself in your singing ; but most likely there are ...
... thing to make sure you can do . Get your voice disciplined and clear , and think only of accuracy ; never of effect or expression : if you have any soul worth expressing it will show itself in your singing ; but most likely there are ...
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24. oldal - Enow of such as for their bellies' sake Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest ; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks
119. oldal - Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone; And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown.
143. oldal - ... we find only in the great Christian poet, the consciousness of a moral law, through which "the gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to scourge us ; " and of the resolved arbitration of the destinies, that conclude into precision of doom what we feebly and blindly began ; and force us, when our indiscretion serves us, and our deepest plots do pall, to the confession, that "there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
94. oldal - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
56. oldal - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
21. oldal - Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
92. oldal - And wherever a true wife comes, this home is always round her. The stars only may be over her head; the glowworm in the night-cold grass may be the only fire at her foot: but home is yet wherever she is; and for a noble woman it stretches far round her, better than ceiled with cedar, or painted with vermilion, shedding its quiet light far, for those who else were homeless.
94. oldal - THREE years she grew in sun and shower ; Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own.
120. oldal - For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky, To faint in the light of the sun she loves, To faint in his light, and to die. All...
13. oldal - Now books of this kind have been written in all ages by their greatest men: — by great leaders, great statesmen, and great thinkers. These are all at your choice; and Life is short. You have heard as much before; — yet have you measured and mapped out this short life and its possibilities? Do you know, if you read this, that you cannot read that — that what you lose today you cannot...