 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 556 Seiten
...calm enough. Only honest calm, — natural calm. You might as well try by external pressure to smootho a lake till it could reflect the sky, as by violence...what we know of great men, though of the greatest, we neai'ly always know the least (and that necessarily ; they being very silent, and not much given to... | |
 | 1860 - 800 Seiten
...imagination. That peace must come in its own time, as the waters settle themselves into clearness ns well as quietness: you can no more filter your mind...it, if you would have it quiet. Great courage and telfcommand may to a certain extent give power of painting without the true calmness underneath, but... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 574 Seiten
...grasp of it will be possible for you. No forced calm is calm enough. Only honest calm, — natural calm. You might as well try by external pressure to...always know the least (and that necessarily ; they being very silent, and not much given to setting themselves forth to questioners ; apt to be contemptuously... | |
 | 1860 - 794 Seiten
...till it could reflect the sky, as by violence of efïort to secure the peace through which only yon can reach imagination. That peace must come in its...always know the least (and that necessarily; they being very silent, and not much given to setting themselves I860.] [August, forth to questioners, —... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1865 - 502 Seiten
...calm enough. Only honest calm, — natural calm. You might as well try by external pressure to smooth a lake till it could reflect the sky, as by violence...always know the least (and that necessarily; they being very silent, and not much given to setting themselves forth to questioners; apt to be contemptuously... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 372 Seiten
...grasp of it will be possible for you. No forced calm is calm enough. Only honest calm, — natural calm. You might as well try by external pressure to...always know the least (and that necessarily ; they being very silent, and not much given to setting themselves forth to questioners ; apt to be contemptuously... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 Seiten
...calm enough. Only honest calm, — natural calm. You might as well try by external pressure to smoothc a lake till it could reflect the sky, as by violence...sufficient evidence of this, in even what we know of crreat men, , r-> 3 though of the greatest, we nearly always know the least (and that necessarily ;... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1869 - 364 Seiten
...grasp of it will be possible for you. No forced calm is calm enough. Only honest calm, — natural calm. You might as well try by external pressure to...always know the least (and that necessarily ; they being very silent, and not much given to setting themselveb forth to questioners ; apt to be contemptuously... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 470 Seiten
...grasp of it will be possible for you. No forced calm is calm enough. Only honest calm, — natural calm. You might as well try by external pressure to...always know the least (and that necessarily; they being very silent, and not much given to setting themselves forth to questioners; apt to be contemptuously... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1873 - 552 Seiten
...grasp of it will be possible for you. No forced calm is calm enough. Only honest calm, — natural calm. You might as well try by external pressure to...always know the least (and that necessarily; they being very silent, and not much given to setting themselves forth to questioners ; apt to be contemptuously... | |
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... you can reach imagination. That peace must come in its own time ; as the waters settle themselves into clearness as well as quietness ; you can no more filter your mind into purity than you can compress it into calmness ; you must keep it pure, if... 
