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" And keeping the figure a little longer, even at cost of tiresomeness, for it is a thoroughly useful one, the metal you are in search of being the author's mind or meaning, his words are as the rock which you have to crush and smelt in order to get at... "
Sesame and Lilies: Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester in 1864 - Page 20
by John Ruskin - 1867
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Pre-Raphaelitism

John Ruskin - 1865 - 302 pages
...tiresomeness, for it is a thoroughly useful one, the metal you aro in search of being the author's mind or meaning, his words are as the rock which you have...care, wit, and learning ; your smelting-furnace is yonr own thoughtful soul. Do not hope to get at any good author's meaning without those tools and that...
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Sesame and lilies. Two lectures

John Ruskin - 1865 - 256 pages
...tiresomeness, for it is a thoroughly useful one, the metal you are in search of being the author's mind or meaning, his words are as the rock which you have...pickaxes are your own care, wit, and learning ; your smelting furnace is your own thoughtful soul. Do not hope to get at any good author's meaning without...
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The Works of John Ruskin, Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford: Sesame ...

John Ruskin - 1871 - 212 pages
...tiresomeness, for it is a thoroughly useful one, the metal you are in search of being the author's mind or meaning, his words are as the rock which you have...pickaxes are your own care, wit, and learning ; your smelting furnace is your own thoughtful soul. Do not hope to get at any good author's meaning without...
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Sesame and Lilies

John Ruskin - 1871 - 220 pages
...rm^al yon are in search of being the antior's rrrrnd or meaning. Ins words are as the rode which yon have to crush and smelt in order to get at it. And yonr pickaxes are your own care, wit, and J earning ; yonr smelting furnace if your own thoughtful...
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The Works of John Ruskin: Sesame and lilies

John Ruskin - 1880 - 216 pages
...tiresomeness, for it is a thoroughly useful one, the metal you are in search of being the author's mind or meaning, his words are as the rock which you have...pickaxes are your own care, wit, and learning ; your smelting furnace is your own thoughtful soul. Do not hope to get at any good author's meaning without...
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Education, Volume 42

1922 - 694 pages
...tiresomeness, for it is a thoroughly useful one, the metal you are in search of being the author's mind or meaning, his words are as the rock which you have...pickaxes are your own care, wit, and learning ; your smelting furnace is your own thoughtful soul. Do not hope to get at any good author's meaning without...
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A Practical Reader: With Exercises in Vocal Culture

Caroline Bigelow Le Row - 1882 - 222 pages
...smelt in order to get at it. Your pickaxes are your own care, wit, and learning; your smelting furnace is your own thoughtful soul. Do not hope to get at...author's meaning without those tools and that fire. And therefore, first of all, I tell yon, earnestly and authoritatively — I know I am right in this—...
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The Granville series. Reading book. Standard 1-6

Granville series - 1882 - 330 pages
...longer, for it is a thoroughly useful one, the metal you are in search of being the author's inind or meaning, his words are as the rock which you have to crush and smelt in order to get at it. 14. And your pickaxes are your own care, wit, and learning ; your smelting-furnace is your own thoughtful...
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Harper's First [-sixth] Reader, Book 4

Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1888 - 436 pages
...am I in good trim myself, my sleeves well up to the elbow, and my breath good, and my temper?" For your pickaxes are your own care, wit, and learning;...not hope to get at any good author's meaning without these tools and that fire; often you will need sharpest, finest carving, and the most careful melting,...
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Harper's Fourth Reader: In Two Parts

1888 - 432 pages
...am I in good trim myself, my sleeves well up to the elbow, and my breath good, and my temper?" For your pickaxes are your own care, wit, and learning...not hope to get at any good author's meaning without these tools and that fire ; often you will need sharpest, finest carving, and the most careful melting,...
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