The Works of John Ruskin: Fors Clavigera, lettersG. Allen, 1907 |
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... seen ; discussed Carpaccio , Gentile Bellini , Tintoretto , Raphael , Michael Angelo , and Art in general . Not infrequently the conversation turned on religion . He told me about his visit to the tomb of the Holy Apostles , Peter and ...
... seen ; discussed Carpaccio , Gentile Bellini , Tintoretto , Raphael , Michael Angelo , and Art in general . Not infrequently the conversation turned on religion . He told me about his visit to the tomb of the Holy Apostles , Peter and ...
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... seen , 5 was not slow ; 1 Mr. Horsfall explained his original scheme for the Museum , both in the letter to the Manchester Guardian quoted in Fors , and in a pamphlet entitled The Art Museum , Manchester ( 1878 ) . An interesting ...
... seen , 5 was not slow ; 1 Mr. Horsfall explained his original scheme for the Museum , both in the letter to the Manchester Guardian quoted in Fors , and in a pamphlet entitled The Art Museum , Manchester ( 1878 ) . An interesting ...
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... seen the reverent way in which he approached , with his hat off , an old man who had worked for Scott , and how he expressed his sense of the honour of seeing a man who had known Scott , and how the sense of his having known Scott must ...
... seen the reverent way in which he approached , with his hat off , an old man who had worked for Scott , and how he expressed his sense of the honour of seeing a man who had known Scott , and how the sense of his having known Scott must ...
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... seen manifestly that they have always been vain , nor have ever brought forth the good effect which was desired ; and the cause of this is seen expressly to be a great number of buyers - to - sell - again who find them- selves in this ...
... seen manifestly that they have always been vain , nor have ever brought forth the good effect which was desired ; and the cause of this is seen expressly to be a great number of buyers - to - sell - again who find them- selves in this ...
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... seen.2 " Take stars for money - stars , not to be told By any art , -yet to be purchased . ” 3 I have nothing to do , nor have you , with what is hap- pening in space ( or possibly may happen in time ) , we have only to attend to what ...
... seen.2 " Take stars for money - stars , not to be told By any art , -yet to be purchased . ” 3 I have nothing to do , nor have you , with what is hap- pening in space ( or possibly may happen in time ) , we have only to attend to what ...
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