...charactar, of this I am certain, that whatever is to be truly great and affecting must have on it the strong stamp of the native land : not a law this, but a necessity,...religious, it must be got out of our own little island and out of this year 1816— • railroads and all : if a British painter, I say this in earnest seriousness,...

...great and affecting, must have in it the strong stamp of the native land, and this not of a law, but of necessity, from the intense hold on their country of the affections of all truly great men." We see this illustrated by Dante in Italy, Goethe in Germany, and in our own Shakespeare. While the...

...great and affecting, must have in it the strong stamp of the native land, and this not of a law, but of necessity, from the intense hold on their country of the affections of all truly great men." We see this illustrated by Dante in Italy, Goethe in Germany, and in our own Shakespeare. While the...

...character, of this I am certain, that whatever is to be truly great and affecting must have on it the strong stamp of the native land. Not a law this, but a necessity,...truly great men. All classicality, all middle-age patentreviving, is utterly vain and absurd ; if we are now to do anything great, good, awful, religious,...

...country of the affections of all truly great men. All classicality, all middle-age patentreviving, is utterly vain and absurd ; if we are now to do anything...religious, it must be got out of our own little island, and out of these very times, railroads and all : if a British painter, I say this in earnest seriousness,...

...familiar to him from boyhood.. He had not yet realized the truth of Mr. Ruskin's saying, "Whatever is to be truly great and affecting must have on it...classicality, all middle-age patent reviving, is utterly vaiu and absurd ; if we are now to do anything great, good, awful, religious, it must be got out of...

...of this I am certain, that whatever is to be truly great, and affecting must have on it the strong stamp of the native land ; not a law this, but a necessity,...country of the affections of all truly great men ; all classicalitv, all middleage patent reviving, is utterly vain and absurd ; if we are now to do anything...

...character, of this I am certain, that whatever is to be truly great and affecting must have on it the strong stamp of the native land ; not a law this, but a necessity,...religious, it must be got out of our own little island, and out of this year 1846, railroads and all : if a British painter, I say this in earnest seriousness,...

...REYNOLDS AND GAINSBOROUGH " WHATEVER is to be truly great and truly affecting must have on il trie strong stamp of the native land. Not a law this, but a necessity,...religious, it must be got out of our own little island ' (KusKIN : Modern Painters, vol. i. pt. ii. sec. i. ch. vii. § 37). " OK the modem mind in England...

...affecting must have on it the strong stamp of the native land .... all classicality, all middle-age paient reviving, is utterly vain and absurd ; if we are now...religious, it must be got out of our own little island." — Mod. Painters, vol. i. JR. RUSKIN has dealt some sturdy blows in his time against the unrealities...