 | Sir Patrick Geddes - 1884 - 56 pagine
...what I repeat, would these iron-dominant genii think of me ? and what ought I to think of them ? " But as I reach this point of reverence, the unreasonable...pleased by aught of oaten stop or pastoral song." The requisite correction, then, as afforded by the first paragraph of the present passage, is that... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1894 - 906 pagine
...what, I repeat, would these iron dominant genii think of me • and what ought I to think of them ? But as I reach this point of reverence, the unreasonable...pleased by aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song." * This passage is interesting, incidentally, as showing that Mr. Ruskin's attitude toward modern machinery... | |
 | 1894 - 880 pagine
...of me ? and what ought I to think of them ? But as I reach this point of reverence, the uureasonable thing is sure to give a shriek as of a thousand unanimous...soon to have its modest ear pleased by aught of oaten atop, or pastoral song." * This passage is interesting, incidentally, as showing that Mr. Ruskin's... | |
 | 1900 - 728 pagine
...; what, I repeat, would these irondominant genii think of me ? and what ought I to think of them ? "But as I reach this point of reverence, the unreasonable...pleased by aught of oaten stop or pastoral song." The popular impression that Ruskin abhorred all machinery and recommended its disuse, and that he criticized... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 676 pagine
...what, I repeat, would these Iron-dominant Genii think of me? and what ought I to think of them?2 10. But as I reach this point of reverence, the unreasonable...fluting and piping among them is not likely soon to have best in 148; 1 [Compare Raskin's frequent application of Shakespeare's line, "The b this kind are but... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 678 pagine
...what, I repeat, would these Iron-dominant Genii think of me? and what ought I to think of them?2 10. But as I reach this point of reverence, the unreasonable...fluting and piping among them is not likely soon to have best in 148; 1 [Compare Ruskin's frequent application of Shakespeare's line, "The b this kind are but... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 704 pagine
...what, I repeat, would these Iron-dominant Genii think of me? and what ought I to think of them ? 2 10. But as I reach this point of reverence, the unreasonable...fluting and piping among them is not likely soon to have 1 [Compare Ruskin's frequent application of Shakespeare's line, "The best in this kind are but shadows... | |
 | Sir Edward Tyas Cook - 1911 - 650 pagine
...describes the " assemblage of accurate and mighty faculties " hi it, and then breaks off thus : — " But as I reach this point of reverence, the unreasonable...pleased by aught of oaten stop or pastoral song." How characteristic is the transition ! And these papers themselves were written desultorily, and in... | |
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But as I reach this point of reverence, the unreasonable thing is sure to give a shriek as of a thousand unanimous vultures, which leaves me shuddering in real physical pain for some half minute following... 