Word: ruskinism
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...became a guide, philosopher and friend. Carlyle said he "introduces one to more literature than almost anyone else." He was an interpreter of life at every point. But there are other guides perhaps as good and although they differ among themselves, any one will serve Carlyle or Emerson, Ruskin or Browning. It is not of much importance how one arrives in the "Kingdom of Literature," so long as one is there. Literature should be subservient to life. It is the highest outcome of the progress...
...University of Edinburgh. The subject for discussion was: "Shakspere; the Man." Recent talk about Shakspere, -Mr. Black began, has lead me to go over again the slender story of his life. He was a poet, an artist and a dramatist; the author of some forty works. Mr. Ruskin in his second Lecture on Art at Oxford said: "The highest thing that Art can do is to set before us the figure of a man." It is very proper then that we should turn to Shakspere, the glory of English and universal literature. The facts of his life are derived from...
...publicity and was a quiet stately actor. His favorite parts were those of the Ghost, in Hamlet, and Old Adam, in As You Like It. He was, in fine, "a fantastical fellow of dark corners." He was devoted to his sacred art but the author disappeared in the work. Ruskin has said: "An artist has done nothing until he has concealed himself." If the converse be true, Shakspere is truly a master...
Professor Norton has written an introduction to Ruskin's book on Greek Myths entitled "The Queen...
...constructive problems with which the modern builder has to deal properly considered as architectural? (Professor Hamlin: "The Difficulties of Modern Architecture," in "The Architectural Record" for the quarter ending December 31, 1891; Ruskin's "Seven Lamps of Architecture...