Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 193
owing them, namely to represent them as golden. Forthe idea of golden fruit of various kinds was already familiarto the mind, as in the apples of the Hesperides, without anyviolence to the distinctive conception of the fruit itself.* So * Thus the grapes pressed by Excesse are partly golden…
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