St. Mark's rest : the history of Venice written for the help of the few travellers who still care for her monuments (1885)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Lovell · leaf 449
-pent beguihng Eve. * Yet, in that sketch, rude and ludicrous as it is, you havethe elements of life in their first form. The people who coulddo that were sure to get on. For, observe, the workmanswhole aim is straight at the facts, as w^ell as he can get them;and not merely at the facts, but at… … them ; he wants the serpents heart—malice and insinuation;—and he has actually got them to some extent. So also acommon workman, even in this barbarous stage of art, mighthave carved Eves arms and bod} a good deal better ; but thisman does not care about arms and body, if he can only get atEves…
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