John Ruskin; a sketch of his life, his work, and his opinions, with personal reminiscences (1900)
Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry), 1858-1948, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott · leaf 114
hat, as withLord Lytton, poetry was to him but a will-o-the-wisp—to be wooed and followed, but never,like Fata Morgana, to be seized. Yet, though he thus tacitly admitted, whileyet a stripling, that verse was not the weaponwith which he was to conquer the recognitionof the world, he made no… … JOHN RUSKIN, 1S76. SKETCHED IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY BY GEORGES PILOTELLE. {By permission of Mr. Noseda, the owner of the copyright of the etching.) (See p. 1S0.) ■. . LIC LIBRARY, ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILDEN FOUNDATIONS. THE POET. 113 fresh in the memory of the reader. It mightbe said, and not without…
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Art
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