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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- I “LECTURES ON LANDSCAPE” (1871)
- II “THE RELATION BETWEEN MICHAEL ANGELO AND TINTORET” (1871)
- III “THE EAGLE'S NEST”: TEN LECTURES ON THE RELATION OF NATURAL SCIENCE TO ART (1872)
- IV “ARIADNE FLORENTINA”: SIX LECTURES ON WOOD AND METAL ENGRAVING (1872)
- APPENDIX: NOTES FOR OXFORD LECTURES
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III - “THE EAGLE'S NEST”: TEN LECTURES ON THE RELATION OF NATURAL SCIENCE TO ART (1872)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- I “LECTURES ON LANDSCAPE” (1871)
- II “THE RELATION BETWEEN MICHAEL ANGELO AND TINTORET” (1871)
- III “THE EAGLE'S NEST”: TEN LECTURES ON THE RELATION OF NATURAL SCIENCE TO ART (1872)
- IV “ARIADNE FLORENTINA”: SIX LECTURES ON WOOD AND METAL ENGRAVING (1872)
- APPENDIX: NOTES FOR OXFORD LECTURES
- Plate section
Summary
1. The Lectures I have given hitherto, though, in the matter of them conscientiously addressed to my undergraduate pupils, yet were greatly modified in method by my feeling that this undergraduate class, to which I wished to speak, was indeed a somewhat imaginary one; and that, in truth, I was addressing a mixed audience, in greater part composed of the masters of the University, before whom it was my duty to lay down the principles on which I hoped to conduct, or prepare the way for the conduct of, these schools, rather than to enter on the immediate work of elementary teaching. But to-day, and henceforward most frequently, we are to be engaged in definite, and, trust, continuous studies; and from this time forward, I address myself wholly to my undergraduate pupils; and wish only that my Lectures may be serviceable to them, and, as far as the subject may admit of it, interesting.
2. And, farther still, I must ask even my younger hearers to pardon me if I treat that subject in a somewhat narrow, and simple way. They have a great deal of hard work to do in other schools: in these, they must not think that I underrate their powers, if I endeavour to make everything as easy to them as possible. No study that is worth pursuing seriously can be pursued without effort; but we need never make the effort painful merely for the sake of preserving our dignity.
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 111 - 288Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1906