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John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art historian, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. Ruskin was heavily engaged by the work of Viollet-le-Duc which he ...
Rose La Touche (1848–1875) was the pupil, cherished student, "pet", and ideal on whom the English art historian John Ruskin based Sesame and Lilies (1865).
Sesame and lilies; two lectures on ... Author: Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Keysor, Jennie E. (Jennie Ellis), 1860-Title: Sesame and lilies; two lectures on books and ...
Text. The King of the Golden River at Wikisource. The King of the Golden River or The Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria is a fantasy story originally written in 1841 by John Ruskin for the twelve-year-old Effie (Euphemia) Gray, whom Ruskin later married. [1] It was published in book form in 1851, and became an early Victorian classic which ...
John Ruskin: Seven Lamps of Architecture, Sesame and Lilies, The Stones of Venice; Herbert Spencer: First Principles, Essays on Education; Sir Richard Francis Burton: Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Mecca*, First Footsteps in East Africa† John Hanning Speke: Sources of the Nile; Thomas Henry Huxley: Man's Place in Nature, Lectures and Lay Sermons
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The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38, is a work for voices and orchestra in two parts composed by Edward Elgar in 1900, to text from the poem by John Henry Newman. It relates the journey of a pious man's soul from his deathbed to his judgment before God and settling into Purgatory. Elgar disapproved of the use of the term "oratorio" for the work (and ...