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John Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies

'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could afford and kept notes on fifty-eight of them... There were Emerson's essays, Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies, Holmes's Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, Lamb's Essays of Elia, classic biogaphies (Boswell on Johnson, Lockhart on Scott, Carlyle on Sterling), several Waverley novels, Wuthering Heights, Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim's Progress, The Imitation of Christ, Shakespeare's sonnets, Tennyson, Browning, William Morris and Palgrave's Golden Treasury.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Inman      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Unto this Last

'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him think, Vanity Fair and Les Miserables taught him human sympathy, and Wuthering Heights taught him respect for man and nature.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: F.W. Jowett      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : [unknown]

[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and Charles Dickens'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Praeterita

'After reading at the Athenaeum a section of Ruskin's autobiography, "Praeterita", published in instalments between 1885 and 1889, Grant Duff reflected [in diary for 14 August 1889] that it was "an admirable specimen of its author's merits and defects ..."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Grant Duff      Print: Serial / periodical

  

John Ruskin : Unto This Last

'Through reading Unto This Last ... Violet Markham -- who was brought up at Tapton House, set in 85 beautiful Derbyshire acres -- began to realise that her luxuries were owed to the labour of the filthy, forlorn miners she occasionally caught sight of.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Violet Markham      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies

The Duchess of Sutherland to Regy Brett: 'I have dinner on a tray [and], in between mouthfuls of fried sole and partridge, read [Ruskin's] Sesame and Lilies [1865] and [Marie Corelli's] Barabbas by turn.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Millicent Duchess of Sutherland      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : The Political Economy of Art

Letter 6/8/1858 - 'First let me thank you for your notes on Verona - & correction of my statement to the good folks on Manchester. (I will put it all right in the next edition)'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Cestus of Aglaia

"He says careless work is a proof of something wrong in a person's whole moral character." From the editor's footnote 3 on letter W 38. "Writing in 1865, Lady Waterford, having read the beginning of Ruskin's Cestus of Aglaia (his papers on Art) commented to a friend."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies

"Ford Cottage, July 18th, 1865. Have you read Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", his two last lectures? The book sent me to bed so unhappy, that all was wrong and out of joint, and he does not help one to mend it."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Crown of Wild Olives

"Ford Castle, June 1st (1866). Dear Mr Ruskin. I am reading with delight your Crown of Wild Olives trying to fit the sermon on to myself and be the better for it... Yours sincerely, L. Waterford."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : The Elements of Drawing

Letter B 14 - Postmark 6/12/1857 - "I can't answer at length till Monday. But you are quite right about the graver want of the book. [The Elements of Drawing, which had been published in June]. The appalling character of it is only to young ladies who think of drawing as mere recreation - assuredly no more work is asked than about half what they give to piano."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Blunden      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds

Letter B 71 - 3/9/1860 - "I have now your interesting letter about the Sheep-folds. I think you are right about the title, but I do not care about re-publishing the thing just now. We are on the eve of disturbances in the church which will supersede all such discussions by a general crash, out of which common sense will recover without getting its head broken."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Blunden      

  

John Ruskin : The Seven Lamps of Architecture

From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton - "In 1849 her brother was reading The Seven Lamps of Architecture; he found its author to be 'a great enthusiast and runs to extremes in his opinions... he seems to me to become preposterous and self-contradictory', but all was redeemed by his being 'very earnest throughout'."

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Heaton      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Modern Painters I and II

From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton: "She had read and was a 'great admirer' of the early volumes of Modern Painters.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Heaton      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Modern Painters IV

'2 East Parade, Leeds. June 25th 1856. Ellen is rather puzzled', wrote her brother to his wife, 'on comparing the tower at Calais, with Ruskin's "delightful" description.' (Payne coll.)"

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Heaton      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Modern Painters III

Letter H 30 - January 1856 - "I am always treating you ill - but I took so many presentation copies [of the third volume of Modern Painters, published Jan 15, 1856] from the bookseller that I was ashamed to ask for more & so let you buy yours - ... I am truly glad you like it."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Heaton      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : 

"Yet I could not but observe the difference between the zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin -since these magicians were now first revealing themselves to me -and the increasing languor with which I took up Alford formy daily 'passage' [i.e of Bible study]."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Fors [Clavigera]

"Poor fellow! I really pity him; for his last numbers of the Fors [Clavigera] seem to imply growing distraction of mind, wh. is scarcely compatible with perfect sanity. Yet nobody can write better than he does still at times. I wish I could discover his secret for saying stinging things; but I suppose the secret is in a morbid sensibility wh. one would scarcely take, even for the power wh. gives it. He is a terrible wasted force.?

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Fors Clavigera: Letters to the workenand labourers of Great Britain

?There are plenty of things to groan over if so disposed; a fact wh. has been lately impressed upon me by reading some of Ruskin?s manifestoes to the world.?

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Praeterita

"Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquaintance with him."

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : 

"Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquaintance with him."

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : The Crown of Wild olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War

'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Hazlitt's Essays and Ruskin's The Crown of Wild Olives. Later... he joined the library committee of the Miners' Institute in Maesteg, made friends with the librarian, and advised him on acquisitions. Thus he could read all the books he wanted: Marx, Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Marshall, economic and trade union history, Fabian Essays, Thomas Hardy, Meredith, Kipling and Dickens'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : The Stones of Venice

"Winnie Seerbohm, who left Newnham College, Cambridge in November 1885 after only one term's study, suffered from what seems retrospectively to have been nervous asthma combined with a pathological inability to swallow ... she was ordered total rest ... While she wished to be read Ruskin's Stones of Venice aloud, her sisters desisted after a couple of chapters, thinking that it was too heavy for the invalid."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Winnie Seerbohm      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies

'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for the "Senior Cambridge" ... : "Old Mortality", "The Farringdons", "By Mutual Consent" (L. T. Meade), "To Call Her Mine", "Kathrine Regina", and "Self or Bearer" (Besant); "Christmas Carol", "The Cricket on the Hearth", "Hypatia", "Concerning Isabel Carnaby", "The Virginians", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", "The Head of the House" (E. Everett-Green), "A Double Thread", "The Heir-Presumptive and the Heir-Apparent", "Sesame and Lilies", "A Tale of Two Cities".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Modern Painters

" .... when ... [Mark Pattison] ... met [Mrs Humphry Ward] as a girl of sixteen ... she was familiar ... with certain pieces of Ruskin's Modern Painters, which she had copied out and carried round with her ..."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Arnold      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : The Stones of Venice

[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand against the orthodox economists, cast a spell over me which was irresistible... To read 'Modern Painters', 'The Seven Lamps of Architecture', 'The Stones of Venice', 'The Crown of Wild Olives', was a kind of aesthetic intoxication".

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Modern Painters

[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand against the orthodox economists, cast a spell over me which was irresistible... To read 'Modern Painters', 'The Seven Lamps of Architecture', 'The Stones of Venice', 'The Crown of Wild Olives', was a kind of aesthetic intoxication".

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : The Seven Lamps of Architecture

[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand against the orthodox economists, cast a spell over me which was irresistible... To read 'Modern Painters', 'The Seven Lamps of Architecture', 'The Stones of Venice', 'The Crown of Wild Olives', was a kind of aesthetic intoxication".

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : The Crown of Wild Olives

[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand against the orthodox economists, cast a spell over me which was irresistible... To read 'Modern Painters', 'The Seven Lamps of Architecture', 'The Stones of Venice', 'The Crown of Wild Olives', was a kind of aesthetic intoxication".

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : [unknown]

'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith, Ricardo, Herbert Spencer, Huxley, Mill, Emerson, Dickens, Morris, Blatchford, Shaw and Wells, and of course John Ruskin..."Study always left me with a deep feeling that there was so much amiss with the world. It seemed that it had been started at the wrong end, and that it was everybody's business to put the matter right".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Toole      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies

'[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pick up some poetry written on a page from an exercise book. somehow it spoke to him and he began to read "ravenously". He brought "Sartor Resartus", "Sesame and Lilies" and Montaigne's essays to work. "Les Miserables" reduced him to tears, though he found "Das Kapital" less affecting. Each payday he set aside a few shillings to buy secondhand books, which after a month's use were almost illegible with rust, grease and dirt....[eventually he] went on to become a popular novelist.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick McGill      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Modern Painters

'[Pritchett] was... unprepared for the intimidating greatness of Ruskin's "Modern Painters"... "There was too much to know. I discovered that Ruskin was not so very many years older than I was when he wrote that book".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : 

'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends used to wait outside the bookshops in the early morning, when they heard that a new volume of Tennyson was to come out. He had read all Browning too, and all Wordsworth, and Carlyle, in fact nearly everything contemporary; and he constantly re-read the Classics in their own classic tongues... a triumph of timing occurred once when he was listening to the Thunderstorm in the Pastoral Symphony, and reading the thunderstorm in "Oedipus at Colonus", and a real thunderstorm took place!'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Litchfield      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Seven Lamps of Architecture

'We are reading the "Seven Lamps of Architecture", some part very pretty, other by writing fine [though] very nonsensical, other very powerful, and the beginnings of chapters only fit to be in German.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mary Yonge      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Crown of Wild Olive: Three lectures on work, traffic and war

?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among them being, I remember, "Adam Bede", and other of George Eliot?s novels. My appetite for Ruskin had been whetted by his "Unto this Last", which I had read with care and keen appreciation. Ruskin?s works were at the time beyond the reach of my slender purse. Now I read with delight his "Crown of Wild Olive", his "Sesame and Lilies", and other of his smaller books. These, together with his "Modern Painters", I soon afterwards added to my own little library, as well as a complete set of George Eliot?s works. Next to Wordsworth I do not think any writer has influenced me more deeply and more healthily than Ruskin.?

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies

?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among them being, I remember, Adam Bede, and other of George Eliot?s novels. My appetite for Ruskin had been whetted by his "Unto this Last", which I had read with care and keen appreciation. Ruskin?s works were at the time beyond the reach of my slender purse. Now I read with delight his "Crown of Wild Olive", his "Sesame and Lilies", and other of his smaller books. These, together with his "Modern Painters", I soon afterwards added to my own little library, as well as a complete set of George Eliot?s works. Next to Wordsworth I do not think any writer has influenced me more deeply and more healthily than Ruskin.?

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Modern Painters

?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among them being, I remember, "Adam Bede", and other of George Eliot?s novels. My appetite for Ruskin had been whetted by his "Unto this Last", which I had read with care and keen appreciation. Ruskin?s works were at the time beyond the reach of my slender purse. Now I read with delight his "Crown of Wild Olive", his "Sesame and Lilies", and other of his smaller books. These, together with his "Modern Painters", I soon afterwards added to my own little library, as well as a complete set of George Eliot?s works. Next to Wordsworth I do not think any writer has influenced me more deeply and more healthily than Ruskin.?

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : King of the Golden River

'Yet learn to read I did, for when I was ill in bed at the age of seven, our doctor lent me Ruskin's "King of the Golden River", and I most certainly read that. It is, in fact, the first book I can actually remember having read at all and John Ruskin, of all people, is the first author to have written his name on my mind.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Lectures on Architecture and Painting

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 14 August 1850: 'Ruskin's [italics]Lectures on Architecture and Painting[end italics] which I have been reading, interest and please me immensely. They certainly are dogmatical. They are disfigured by exaggerated tirades against Romanism, but they are full of wonderful thought, and an intense feeling for truth'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Praeterita

A reminiscence of reading John Ruskin's autobiography, Praeterita (pub 1881-6) at work. Published in The Wheatsheaf: 'Long ago, with the engine groaning below the wooden, dusty floor of a hot winding-room in a cotton factory, I read the description of a little wood overhanging the Falls of Schaffhausen. Ruskin had written it; and in his words was the beat of the waters and the colour of the flowers, and I longed to see the reality. Yet his description is only the shadow of the real glory of those Schaffhausen meadows'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Carnie      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Lectures on Architecture and Painting

'Ruskin's "Lectures on Architecture and Painting" which I have been reading, interest and please me immensely. They certainly are dogmatical. They are disfigured by exaggerated tirades against Romanism, but they are full of wonderful thought, and an intense feeling for truth, which must have an effect, one would think, upon those who read, or who have heard them'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Stones of Venice

'?I am reading Ruskin?s "Stones of Venice"with great pleasure. He can [italics] write [end italics] a few, can?t he?'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : The Stones of Venice

'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about, played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included "Gone with the Wind" (Shipton) "Seventeenth Century Verse" (Oliver), "Montaigne's Essays" (Warren), "Don Quixote" (self), "Adam Bede" (Lloyd), "Martin Chuzzlewit" (Smythe), "Stones of Venice" (Odell) and a few others. Warren, who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases. '

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Noel Odell      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Modern Painters

'After breakfast we went on the Lake; and Miss B and I agreed in thinking Mr Moseley a good goose; in liking Mr Newman's soul, - in liking Modern Painters, and the idea of the Seven Lamps'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Modern Painters

'I am very happy nevertheless making flannel petticoats; and reading Modern painters'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Seven Lamps of Architecture, The

'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am reading. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture for the last instance'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Seven Lamps of Architecture, The

'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am reading. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture for the last instance'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Modern Painters

'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading the 'Amber-Witch'.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Modern Painters

'I am very much obliged to you indeed for so kindly and so speedily sending me the books I asked for, and which gave great delight to my daughter, when they arrived yesterday morning. I beg to enclose a Post Office Order for the amount.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily ('Meta') Gaskell      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : The Stones of Venice (vol 1 chapter 1)

Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Ruskin's remarks on Claude and the Poussins as 'weak men' with 'no serious influence on the general mind.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : 'The Pleasures of Deed' (Lecture II in series 'The Pleasures of England')

Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include Ruskin's remark, from a Slade Lecture (with five commas omitted from original): 'Every mutiny every danger every terror and every crime occurring under or paralysing our Indian legislation, arises directly out of our national desire to live out of the loot of India.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Introduction to Notes on Turner drawings

Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1945) include extracts (on transience of pleasure in nature) from Ruskin's introduction to his notes on Turner drawings owned by him, and exhibited in 1878 at the Fine Art Society's London galleries.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Unto this Last

'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this last", which Gissing liked as a "contribution to - or rather onslaught upon - Political Economy"; Landor's "Imaginary Conversations", for its "perfect prose"; and Scott's "Redgauntlet", for the romantic situations of which he must "try to find parallel kinds in modern life". Gissing kept up the habit throughout his life: he was always reading and always recommending books to his friends and family. In the early 1880s he read a lot of German, and to his brother, Algernon, particularly recommended Eckerman's "Conversations with Goethe", "a most delightful book". Meanwhile his sister, Margaret, was reading Schiller under his direction'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War

'[Discussion of Ruskin] was followed by a reading by Mrs Ridges from "The Crown of Wild Olive". Mrs Stansfield read a paper on Ruskin's Economics principally with reference to "Unto this Last".' [the lengthy discussion that ensued is given in the MS]

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Blanche Ridges      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Unto this Last

'[Discussion of Ruskin] was followed by a reading by Mrs Ridges from "The Crown of Wild Olive". Mrs Stansfield read a paper on Ruskin's Economics principally with reference to "Unto this Last".' [the lengthy discussion that ensued is given in the MS]

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Modern Painters

'After a period of refreshment A. Rawlings then read a paper on Ruskin as an art critic, in which he gratuituously attacked the literary style of Modern Painters with which the paper chiefly dealt. The style was condemned as quite unsuited to the subject by reason of its verbosity its looseness of expression & inexact terminology. This view met with strong dissent. Extracts were then read from Modern Painters showing the argument of the work which was criticised later'. [the critique is summarised]

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : Modern Painters

'After a period of refreshment A. Rawlings then read a paper on Ruskin as an art critic, in which he gratuituously attacked the literary style of Modern Painters with which the paper chiefly dealt. The style was condemned as quite unsuited to the subject by reason of its verbosity its looseness of expression & inexact terminology. This view met with strong dissent. Extracts were then read from Modern Painters showing the argument of the work which was criticised later'. [the critique is summarised]

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: XII Book Club     Print: Book

  

John James Ruskin : diary

'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of painters!) - I open it at 39. i. about Bp Bossuet's work; and intending to read Ezek. XXXIX again, read XXXVI instead.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

  

John James Ruskin : diary

'Read my Father's note of flowers at Chartreuse. 21.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

  

John James Ruskin : diary

'Read my Father's note on St George. p. 26'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

  

John Ruskin : diary

'I looked for this old diary and read by chance the entry on my birthday, 1873, with my father's "Apocrypha" to refer to, which I had chanced to put forward on my first shelf last night'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

  

John Ruskin : diary

'Read diary of spring 1873 - what a change!'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

  

John Ruskin : diary

'Read entry in this journal for 8th and 9th September!'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

  

John Ruskin : diary

'Read again the lines p. 45 of last diary (Palmero book)'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

  

John Ruskin : diary

'Read, by chance, looking for Botany, the entry of 12th June last year - the trials of the just and scourges of the Sinner! I seem to catch both, just now.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

  

John Ruskin : diary

'Greatly relieved in mind by resolving to stay, and reading former diary'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

  

John Ruskin : diary

'read, this morning, pp. 15 to 18 of Broadlands book with great comfort.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

  

John Ruskin : [notes]

'Yesterday was a culmination of all mischief, finding I had lost (temporarily, may the Fates and Fors'es grant) Sir Walter Scott's Pen! Comforted a little by reading my own notes above on Sisyphus.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

  

John Ruskin : diary

'Read this morning my entries early in 1877.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

  

John Ruskin : Deucalion

'This morning I have great pleasure in reading "Deucalion" before coffee'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

John Ruskin : diary

'Greatly rooted in displeasure with myself as I look over old diaries.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Manuscript: Codex

  

John Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies

'I recalled Ruskin's words in the Preface to "Sesame and Lilies": "Let heart-sickness pass beyond a certain point and the heart loses its life for ever."'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

 

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