Fors clavigera : letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain (1886)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Lovell · leaf 61
even by the roadsides, in a Republican-Plantagenetmanner, blossoming into cheapest gold, either for coins, FOBS CLAVIOERA. 57 which of course you Republicans will call, not Nobles, butIgnobles ; or crowns, second and third hand—(head, I shouldsay) — supplied punctually on demand, with liberal… … with music and dancing. You have always danced too willingly, poor friends, to thatplayer on the viol. We will try to hear, far away, a faintnote or two from a more chief musician on stringed in-struments, in May, when the time of the Singing of Birdsis come. Faithfully yours, JOHN RUSKIN. 58 FOBS…
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