 They should go to nature in all singleness of heart, and walk with her laboriously and trustingly, having no other thought but how best to penetrate her meaning; rejecting nothing, selecting nothing, and scorning nothing.  The New International Encyclopæeia - Page 360edited by - 1909Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1896 - 616 pages
...:— ' Eight years ago ... I ventured to give the following advice to the young artists of England : " They should go to Nature in all singleness of heart,...rejecting nothing, selecting nothing, and scorning nothing " — advice which, whether had or good, involved infinite labour and humiliation in the following... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1852 - 562 pages
...gave to the young artists of England in the close of the first volume of "Modern Painters;" — that " They should go to nature in all singleness of heart,...nothing, selecting nothing, and scorning nothing." " The artists of this school," says Mr. Ruskin, " imitate no pictures ; they paint from nature only. But... | |
 | Edward Young - 1854 - 116 pages
...his " Modern Painters," and again, eight years after, in his Preface to his " PreRaphaellitism," to " go to nature in all singleness of heart, and walk...meaning, rejecting nothing, selecting nothing, and THE TECHNICAL ELEMENT IMITATION. 13 scorning nothing" These are significant words : their author acknowledges... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 512 pages
...artists that " they should go to nature in all singleness of heart, and walk with her labouriously and trustingly, having no other thought but how best...nothing, selecting nothing, and scorning nothing." Now Mr. Ruskin assuredly was not the first teacher of art who had sent the young artist " to nature."... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 512 pages
...a piece of advice involving the very essence of Ruskinism. In it he tells our young artists that " they should go to nature in all singleness of heart, and walk with her labouriously and trustingly, having no other thought but how best to penetrate her meaning ; rejecting... | |
 | 1857 - 626 pages
...Modern Painters, • I ventured to givo the following advice to the young artists of England : — ' They should go to nature in all singleness of heart,...nothing, selecting nothing, and scorning nothing.' Advice which, whether bad or good, involved infinite labour and humiliation in the following it ; and... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1857 - 500 pages
...early works a11 students. of Turner their example, as his latest are to be their object of emulation, should go to Nature in all singleness of heart, and...with her laboriously and trustingly, having no other thoughts but how best to penetrate her meaning, and remember her instruction ; rejecting nothing, selecting... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...volume of Modern Painters, Mr. Ruskin gave the following advice to the young artists of England : — " They should go to nature in all singleness- of heart,...nothing, selecting nothing, and scorning nothing. ' This he quotes in the Preface to his Pre-Raphaelitism, and says, — " Advice which, whether bad... | |
 | Ireland - 1851 - 424 pages
...' Modern Painters,' I ventured to give the following advice to the young artists of England :— ' They should go to nature in all singleness of heart,...nothing, selecting nothing, and scorning nothing.' Advice which, whether bad or good, involved infinite labour and humiliation in the following it; and... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Literature - 1860 - 786 pages
...corruption. Like your Phoenix, we must devote ourselves only on the altar of the Sun. Ruskin says that we should "go to Nature in all singleness of heart, and...her meaning ; rejecting nothing, selecting nothing, scorning nothing." This is a creed which can only be practised without peril by one who knows that... | |
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