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CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) to his subject, and makes us think of Burns rather than of Carlyle. The style, though ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) It is needless to say thatHeroesis not a book of history; nei- ther is it scientifical ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) dramatic. From a mass of historical details he selects a few picturesque incidents and ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) know where); the narrative concerns this queer professor’s life and opinions; and the ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) might reasonably speak of Carlyle’s as that of the exhorter, who cares little for meth ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900) In approaching the study of Ruskin we are to remember, first o ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) "the rod and reproof give wisdom." Of Ruskin’s early years at Herne Hill, on the outsk ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) Ruskin’s literary work began in childhood, when he was encouraged to write freely in p ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) At the height of his fame, in 1860, Ruskin turned for a time from art, to consider que ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) thrown. On the death of his mother he left London and, in 1879, retired to Brantwood, ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) He gives us, with a wealth of detail, a description of what constitutes a real book; h ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) are of more account than money; that a man’s real wealth is found in his soul; not in ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) In this attempt to make art serve the practical ends of life, Ruskin is allied with al ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) fore he preached it. MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888) In the world of literature Arnold has ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) university. "The Scholar-Gipsy" and "Thyrsis" contain many references to Oxford and th ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) twelve years later appeared his last volume of poetry. Com- pared with the early work ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) and questioning. He faced these doubts honestly, reverently,– in his heart longing to ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) ter, Temineh, and married her. But he was of a roving, ad- venturous disposition, and ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) ten. And the exquisite ending, where the Oxus, unmindful of the trivial strifes of men ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) two which may be taken as typical of all the rest.Literature and Dogma(1873) is, in ge ...