A Joy For Ever (and Its Price in the Market)Ruskin, John
Philosophy
A Joy For Ever (and Its Price in the Market)
Ruskin, John
Art
Charity, crowning kingship (Siena fresco), 59.
" in preserving health, not in protracting disease, 184.
" is guidance, 127.
" not a geographical virtue, 81.
" true, defined, 118.
Charon, 3.
Chartres, 86.
Cheapness not to be considered in producing art, 37.
" of good art, undesirable and why, 62 _seq._
Cheating disgraceful, but being cheated is not, 89.
Church-going and life, 14.
" restoration, mania for, 86-7.
Clarke, Dr. Adam, at the Metaphysical Society, 176.
Cleobis and Bito, death of, 109.
" story of, beautiful, 183.
Clergymen, to preach practically--_e.g._, on trade, 112 _n._
Cleverness, best shown in sympathy with the aims of others, 170.
Clough, Arthur, _quoted_, 185 _n._
Cocoa-nut, simile from a, as to the cheapness of good art, 64.
Colour, good, to be lasting, 44.
" local, as an element of chiaroscuro, 162.
Commerce, cowardice and, 177.
" frauds of, 151-2.
" modern, 1857 _pref._ xi.
Competition, a bad thing in education, 135.
Conservatism, true, 58.
Country, serving one's, with plough, pen, and sword, 129.
Cricket, the game of, 128.
Criticism, mistaken blame worse than mistaken praise, 24.
" public, its effect on artists, 24.
Currency, national, its nature, 149.
Dante--_Inferno_, the purse round the neck as a sign of condemnation, 4.
" " _Lasciate ogni speranza_, 93.
Deane, Sir T., on the Oxford Museum, 32.
Death, as a reward, 183.
Design, dependent on proportion, 160.
" study of, 159.
" subjects of, 172-3.
Development, the direction of human, 175.
Dialogue on "paternal government," 121.
Diamond-cutting, waste of time, 34.
Dictionary of classical antiquities, woodcuts in, 107.
"Diletto" and art, 155.
Diogenes, respected, 2-3.
Discipline the basis of progress, 16.
Discovery of men of genius, 20.
Disobedience destroys power of understanding, 1857 _pref._ x.
Drawing as a means of description, 153.
" lessons, 156.
" to be learnt, as reading or writing, 153, 158.
" to scale, to be learnt, 160.
Dress, art of, 47.
" beautiful, essential to great art--_e.g._, its portraiture, 54.
" " characteristics of, 54.
" " a means of education, 54.
" best, not the costliest, 54.
" employment of labour--_e.g._, ball-dresses, 50.
" fashion in, wasted power of design, 45.
" fine, the spoils of death, 53.
" " as a subject of expenditure, 146.
" " under what circumstance, right and wrong, 52.
" lace, its value, 171.
Duerer's engravings, art-models, 169.
" " permanency of, 42.
" " crest with cock, as art-model, 164.
" woodcuts, 40.
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