British art critic (1819-1900)

Usage examples of ruskin.

Whereas Ruskin throws out a multitude of aphoristic utterances about many different aspects of nature, which will provide us with further starting-points for our own observation and thought, Howard is concerned with a single sphere of phenomena, that of cloud formation.

In this earnest ascription of spirituality to the leaves Lanier recalls Ruskin.

Ruskin realized with a start that Stanley Broder had said something to him.

In Wordsworth, in Scott, in Keats and Shelley and Byron, in Tennyson and Browning, in Carlyle and Ruskin, came an age of passionate sincerity of protest against the dulness of prosperity.

Colin Beever, a gifted organiser who went on to Ruskin College, edited its mixture of gossip, light-hearted observation and youthful punditry and I wrote bits and pieces.

Ruskin shook his head at the thought that he was being remanufactured from the inside out by machines just like those being manipulated by the Yonupians to build spaceships.

I developed a love for Ruskin in those days, partly because he could paint a skyscape in words as it seemed to me that no one else could do.

To-day there is little doubt whose judgement was the truer, even had Ruskin not weakened his position by so often contradicting himself.

It was this quality, high and consecrate, as of a palmer with his vow, this knightly valiance, this constant San Greal quest after the lofty in character and aim, this passion for Good and Love, which fellows him rather with Milton and Ruskin than with the less sturdily built poets of his day, and which puts him in sharpest contrast with the school led by Swinburne -- with Rossetti and Morris as his followers hard after him -- a school whose reed has a short gamut, and plays but two notes, Mors and Eros, hopeless death and lawless love.

Ruskin had designed what he felt was the perfect mousetrap, until Olga pointed out, with what seemed to be family feeling, that these mice had human brains.

Besides Ruskin, Watts was beginning to make other friends, and was a member of the Cosmopolitan Club, which counted among its members Sir Robert Morier, Sir Henry Layard, FitzGerald, Palgrave, and Spedding.

In Dickens, in Carlyle, even in Ruskin, the Shandean element is often present and not rarely predominant.

Ruskin and Morris, Gilbert Scott, Vanbrugh, Inigo Jones and Wren to name but a few had all lent their influence to a building that combined the utility of a water-tower with the homeliness of Wormwood Scrubs.

Our liberation from these false presumptions through the rhetoric of Carlyle and Ruskin and the activities of the Socialists, is more apparent than real.

Durham detectives Nick Ruskin and Davey Sikes finally came down to see us an hour and a quarter after we arrived.