Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, Том 1George Allen, 1871 - 279 страници |
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Abingdon April battle of Marathon better bought burnt Caen capital castle Clavigera cloth clothmakers cost customers DENMARK HILL destroy earth economical Elysium embodied in material employed English father fight flowers Fools France French friends gaol gardens give goblin Godfrey de Harcourt hands happy HARVARD COLLEGE Heaven honour hundred idle ingenious instance iron James JOHN RUSKIN King of England kingdom kingdom of England labour lace lacemaker least leaves lecturer less liberty light live look Love means month morning nation ness object once Paris perhaps person picture plane Poissy poor position of William producing rich round Sceaux Seraphic siege of Paris Sir Godfrey squire suppose taught tell things thought thousand pounds tion told town true villages Villejuif Westminster Bridge wise words workmen write yourselves
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Страница 2 - For my own part, I will put up with this state of things, passively, not an hour longer. I am not an unselfish person, nor an Evangelical one ; I have no particular pleasure in doing good ; neither do I dislike doing it so much as to expect to be rewarded for it in another world. But I simply cannot paint, nor read, nor look at minerals, nor do anything else that I like, and the very light of the morning sky, when there is...
Страница 84 - Now, in that sentence you have the most perfect and admirable summary given you of the general temper and purposes of modern science. It gives lectures on Botany, of which the object is to show that there is no such thing as a flower...
Страница 82 - ... miscreant, that I am not myself capable of conceiving a number two or three, or any rivalship or association with it whatsoever. The extremity of its unvirtue consisted, observe, mainly in the quantity of instruction which was abused in it. It showed that the persons who produced it had seen everything, and practised everything; and misunderstood everything they saw, and misapplied everything they did.
Страница 87 - Enterprise." You Enterprised a Railroad through the valley — you blasted its rocks away, heaped thousands of tons of shale into its lovely stream. The valley is gone, and the Gods with it; and now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton; which you think a lucrative process of exchange — you Fools Everywhere.
Страница 93 - But everywhere, and all day long, you are vitiating it with foul chemical exhalations; and the horrible nests, which you call towns, are little more than laboratories for the distillation into heaven of venomous smokes and smells, mixed with effluvia from decaying animal matter, and infectious miasmata from purulent disease.
Страница 100 - ... used to paint pictures of gods on their pots ; we, probably, cannot do as much, but we may put some pictures of insects on them, and reptiles ; — butterflies, and frogs, if nothing better. There was an excellent old potter in France who used to put frogs and vipers into his dishes, to the admiration of mankind ; we can surely put something nicer than that. Little by little, some higher art and imagination may manifest themselves among us ; and feeble rays of science may dawn for us. Botany,...
Страница 79 - It has been asked of me, very justly, why I have hitherto written to you of things you were little likely to care for, in words which it was difficult for you to understand. I have no fear but that you will one day understand all my poor words, — the saddest of them, perhaps, too well. But I have' great fear that you may never come to understand these written above, which are part of a king's lovesong, in one sweet May, of many long since gone.
Страница 94 - ... beautiful in falls, in lakes, in living pools; so full of fish that you might take them out with your hands instead of nets. Or you may do always as you have done now — turn every river of England into a common sewer, so that you cannot so much as baptize an English baby but with filth, unless you hold its face out in the rain; and even that falls dirty.
Страница 87 - ... so that he can draw nothing more, except brown blots through a hole in a box. There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell, once upon a time, divine as the Vale of Tempe; you might have seen the Gods there morning and...
Страница 96 - Admiration, you have learnt contempt and conceit. There is no lovely thing ever yet done by man that you care for, or can understand; but you are persuaded you are able to do much finer things yourselves. You gather, and exhibit together, as if equally instructive, what is infinitely bad, \vidi what is infinitely good.