Fors clavigera. Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain (1871)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York, Wiley · leaf 132
having ears set wide to the wiiid, is careful to have * Engraved, as also the woodcut in the April number, carefully afterHolbein, by my coal-waggon-assisting- assistant: but he has missed hismark somewhat, here ; the imps abortive hands, hooked processes only,like Envys, and pterodactylous, are… … This servant of hers was drawn by the court portraitpainter, Holbein; and was a councillor at poor-law^ boards,in his day; counselling then, as some of us have, since,Bread of Affliction and Water of Affliction for thevagrant as such,—which is, indeed, good advice, if youare quite sure the vagrant…
Conduct of life · Aesthetics · Social problems · Great Britain -- Social conditions 19th century
Internet Archive · Boston Library Consortium · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
