 ... signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change ; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression,...  Healthy Life and Hydropathic News - Page 371883Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 160 pages
...visible and governable things around him." What a thrill of love pervades and pulses through this : " All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment—Mercy." How closely that passage applies to the criticism I have ventured to make on Mr.... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...change; and to li.mi-!i imperfection is to destroy expression, to chock exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and" more...life may be effort, and the law of human judgment merer. Rutkin. He had a face like a benediction. — Cervantes. What clear arched brows ! What sparkling... | |
 | Mrs. Percy Leake - 1897 - 180 pages
...necessary for the spiritual life. . . . When uncertainty ceases, stagnation begins." MRS. SUTHERLAND ORR. " All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...may be Effort, and the law of human judgment Mercy." RUSKIN. TT 7"E live in a commonplace age, we are * ' told, and the " high-faluting " fancies of our... | |
 | Robert de La Sizeranne - 1899 - 344 pages
...change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyse vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...may be Effort, and the law of human judgment Mercy." Their exaggerations and paradox notwithstanding, no one can say that these are the ideas of a moralist.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1900 - 608 pages
...life. To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to paralyse the source of beauty and vitality. 'All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...may be Effort, and the law of human judgment Mercy." Perfec ion in composition, skill and success in the painting of a picuire, matter comparatively little,... | |
 | Ida Maria Street - 1901 - 484 pages
...change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyse vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy. Accept this then for a universal law, that neither architecture nor any other noble work of man can... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1904 - 682 pages
...Leonardo's dissipation of energy, Queen of the Air, § 157.] check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy. Accept this then for a universal law, that neither architecture nor any other noble work of man can... | |
 | John Ruskin, William Burgess - 1907 - 476 pages
...change ; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyse vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy. — Ch. VI. ARCHITECTURE THE MOST HUMAN OF ALL ARTS. XL. A picture or poem is often little more than... | |
 | William Burgess - 1907 - 492 pages
...o-liange; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyse vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.—Ch. VI. ABCHTTECTTJRE THE MOST HUMAN OF ALL ARTS. XL. A picture or poem is often little more... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - 370 pages
...change ; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy. Accept this then for a universal law, that neither architecture nor any other noble work of man can... | |
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