Word: ans
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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I watched him with pity as slowly he strayed with an aspect forlorn,
I followed him closer, and noticed that his eyes bent an idiot's stare
Now and then he would wake for an instant; his eye with a bright light would gleam,
MR. JOHN RUSKIN has been spending the greater portion of his life in endeavoring to free the world from an old idea, that works of art should be admired for their own apparent power, for the force with which they strike the observer. In place of this notion, he has...
It is not long since classical instruction here rested on a basis entirely different from the present. The works of the grand old thinkers of Greece and Rome were read, not as etymological and grammatical puzzles, but for their beauties of idea and of expression. The student was not asked...