Word: observerer
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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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...
(This has been nicely calculated by an old observer, and lacks the possibility of failure, which is such a charm in "Old Probabilities.")