 The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be, rigidly perfect ; part of it is...  Eclectic and Congregational Review - Seite 4781853Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Ruskin, William Burgess - 1907 - 476 Seiten
...demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. XXV. Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life....foxglove blossom, — a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom, — is a type of the life of this world. And in all things that live... | |
 | William Burgess - 1907 - 492 Seiten
...the demand for perfection w always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. XXV. Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life....part of it is decaying, part nascent. The foxglove a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full t> 1 oom,—is a type of the life of this... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - 368 Seiten
...work none but what is bad can be perfect, in its own bad way.1 The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life....foxglove blossom, — a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom, — is a type of the life of this world. And in all things that live... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - 370 Seiten
...work none but what is bad can be perfect, in its own bad way.1 The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life....foxglove blossom, — a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom, — is a type of the life of this world. And in all thingsthat live... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 Seiten
...dragging time along by force, and not he us. — Landor. IMPERFECTION.-(8ee "FAULTS.") Imperfection Edwa — Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect. — The fox-glove blossom, a third part bud ;... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 Seiten
...dragging time along by force, and not he us.— Länder. IMPERFECTION.— (See "FAULTS.") Imperfection — Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect. — The fox-glove blossom, a third part bud ;... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1917 - 844 Seiten
...needs not to be patroned by passion , but can sustain itself upon a temperate dispute. (6) Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life....progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be, rigidlyperfect ; part of it is decaying, part nascent. The fox-glove blossom — a third part bud,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1918 - 456 Seiten
...work none but what is bad can be perfect, in its own bad way.* The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life....foxglove blossom, — a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom, — is a type of the life of this world. And in all things that live... | |
 | Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1919 - 328 Seiten
...honorable. Useless and unworthy. Pleasant and invigorating. Hard and unprofitable. 4. Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life....foxglove blossom, — a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom, — is a type of the life of this world. And in all things that live... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1925 - 468 Seiten
...bad can be perfect, in its own bad way. 1 § 25. The second reason is, th.il- impprfprtinn is in snmp sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of hie in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or... | |
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