Word: withe
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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,
Astonished I listened, and heard him mutter low with a half-smothered sigh,
Now and then he would wake for an instant; his eye with a bright light would gleam,
Which judiciously urges great caution when playing with very sharp tools.
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...