By John Ruskin
John Ruskin (1819-1900) is better identified for his paintings as an paintings critic and social critic, yet is remembered as an writer, poet and artist besides. Ruskin's essays on paintings and structure have been tremendous influential within the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Ruskin's diversity used to be enormous. He wrote over 250 works which began from paintings heritage, yet extended to hide subject matters ranging over technology, geology, ornithology, literary feedback, the environmental results of pollutants, and mythology. In 1848, he married Effie grey, for whom he wrote the early myth novel The King of the Golden River. After his demise Ruskin's works have been gathered jointly in an important "library edition", accomplished in 1912 by means of his buddies Edward prepare dinner and Alexander Wedderburn. Its index is famously intricate, trying to articulate the complicated interconnectedness of his inspiration. His different works comprise: Giotto and his works in Padua (1854), The Harbours of britain (1856), "A pleasure for Ever" (1857), The Ethics of the airborne dirt and dust (1866) and Hortus Inclusus.
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But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, — she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath, as a narcissus will, if you do not give her air enough; she may fall, and defile her head in dust, if you leave her without help at some moments of her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way, if she take any, and in mind as in body, must have always 50 Sesame and Lilies “Her household motions light and free And steps of virgin liberty.
A juror asked what the comforts were, for he only saw a little straw in the corner of the room, the windows of which were broken. The witness began to cry, and said that they had a quilt and other little things. The deceased said he never would go into the workhouse. In summer, 26 Sesame and Lilies when the season was good, they sometimes made as much as 10S. profit in the week. They then always saved towards the next week, which was generally a bad one. In winter they made not half so much. For three years they had been getting from bad to worse.
And unmindful alike of these, and of the dead who have left these for other valleys and for other skies, a group of schoolboys have piled their little books upon a grave, to strike them off with stones. So, also, we play with the words of the dead that would teach us, and strike them far from us with our bitter, reckless will; little thinking that those leaves which the wind scatters had been piled, not only upon a gravestone, but upon the seal of an enchanted vault—nay, the gate of a great city of sleeping kings, who would awake for us and walk with us, if we knew but how to call them by their names.