The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872Ruskin, John
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The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872
Ruskin, John
Art and science
Knowledge, art the shadow of, 68.
" charity and, 29.
" limits of human, 80.
" perception, and their places in art, 126.
" Pope on, quoted, 20.
" "science" and, 37.
" taught by science, 8.
" tenderness the basis of high, 77.
" various kinds for various creatures, 21-2.
" venomous, quoted by Bacon, 29.
" what, good for an artist, 123-4.
"Know thyself," a law to man, 22-3.
Lago di Garda, sunset at, 125.
Lake Erie, 70.
" Ontario, 70.
Landlord, duty of a, not to build cottages, 201.
" speech of an English, to author, 200.
" the good they can do, in keeping the land lovely, 179.
Landscape, author's lectures on, Oxford, 1871, 62.
" choice of subject in, 69.
Laros, the bird, 192.
Law, evidence of, in nature, 183.
" the laws of life, the true object of science, 206.
Leake's travels, 199.
Lectures. See s. _Landscape_.
Leonardo, Luini's master, 46.
" subtle delineation of, 87.
Liberty, modern desire for, 204.
Life, duty of, to give praise and deserve it, 213.
" its laws, the true object of science, 206.
" its source is love, 168.
" temperance of the artistic, 90.
Light, definition of, 97.
" universal prayer for, 115.
" " ideas of God as, 116.
Lindsay, Lord, his Christian Mythology, author's early guide, 46.
" " the first to see the theology of art, _ib._
Linnæus, his classification of birds, 188.
Lion, Charlemagne's treaty and the Scottish, 235.
" the, 184.
Lippi, Filippo, his St. John Baptist, 229.
Literature, eagle-eyed, 36.
" expresses theology less perfectly than does art, 46.
" right aim of, "to exalt the fancy," 3, 206.
" sphere and meaning of, 3, 4.
Livy, Book iii. 26, quoted, 215, 222.
Local associations, to be cherished, 94.
Logic, a method, not a power, 5.
London, Academy of, 93.
" art in, 82.
" as a "man's nest," 61.
" building over, 72.
" traffic, its aspect and meaning, 59-60.
" water-supply, 154.
See s. _Academy_, _Author_, _British Museum_, _Fields_, _Fog_, _Isle
of Dogs_, _Ludgate Hill_, _Noise_, _Paradise Row_, _Parliament_.
Lord's Prayer, the, quoted, 75.
Love, all things founded on, 169.
" derived from "laus," its meaning, 213.
" domestic, its place and influence, 199.
" power of, 212.
" the source of honour, 219.
" " life, 168.
Lucerne, Lake of, 199.
Lucian, on the Halcyon, 194.
Ludgate Hill, scene of traffic at, 59.
Luini, his position vindicated by author, 1861, 46.
" use of red in his frescoes, 226.
Madonna, The, her power in Christian chivalry, 219.
" " picture of, bought by author, its derivative beauty,
218.
Magpie, the, 188.
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