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. Black arts · Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott · leaf 120
nised that, 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, 1876. SKETCHED IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY BY GEORGES PILOTELLE.(By permission of Mr. Noseda, the owner of the copyright of the etching.) (See p. 186.) THE POET. H3 fresh in the memory of the reader. It mightbe said, and not without truth, that the picturesformed the chief artistic value…
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