 London — has become hateful to me, because of the misery that I know of, and see signs of, where I know it not, which no imagination can interpret too bitterly.  Socialists at Work - Page 260by Robert Hunter - 1908 - 374 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1871 - 150 pages
...villanous beggary. For my own part, I will put up with this state of things, passively, not an hour longer. I am not an unselfish person, nor an Evangelical...it in another world. But I simply cannot paint, nor road, nor look at minerals, nor do any tlling else that I like, and the very light of the morning sky,... | |
 | American literature - 1874 - 848 pages
...and the sound of all the evils which affect the world are too much for him. " I am not," he says, " an unselfish person, nor an evangelical one ; I have no particular pleasure in doing good, nor do I dislike doing it so much as to expect to be rewarded for it in another world. But I simply... | |
 | 1874 - 536 pages
...sight and the sound of all the evils which affect the world is too much for him. " I am not," he says, "an unselfish person nor an evangelical one ; I have no particular pleasure in doing good, nor do I dislike doing it so much as to expect to be rewarded for it in another world. But I simply... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 860 pages
...sight and the sound of all the evils which affect the world is too much for him. " I am not," he says, "an unselfish person nor an evangelical one ; I have no particular pleasure in doing good, nor do I dislike doing it so much as to expect to be rewarded for it in another world. But I simply... | |
 | 1874 - 898 pages
...and the sound of all the evils which affect the world is too much for him. ' I am not,1 he says, ' an unselfish person nor an evangelical one ; I have no particular pleasure in doing good, nor do I dislike doing it so much as to expect to be rewarded for it in another world. But I simply... | |
 | William Smart - 1883 - 124 pages
...villanous begging. For my own part, I will put up with this state of things, passively, not an hour longer. I am not an unselfish person, nor an Evangelical...read, nor look at minerals, nor do anything else that Hike, and the very light of the morning sky, when there is any — which is seldom, now-a-days, near... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Authors, English - 1890 - 486 pages
...of his life, " St. George's Guild." He was moved to this work by the misery of England. He says, " I simply cannot paint, nor read, nor look at minerals, nor do anything else I like ; and the very light of the morning sky, when there is any — which is seldom nowadays near... | |
 | American fiction - 1929 - 566 pages
...the force of his invective", is uttered in the first number of that strange medley, Fors Clavigera: "But I simply cannot paint, nor read, nor look at minerals, nor do anything else that I like . . . because of the misery that I know of." Ruskin's revolt against our social order, like his revolt... | |
 | American fiction - 1929 - 570 pages
...the force of his invective", is uttered in the first number of that strange medley, Fors Clavigera: "But I simply cannot paint, nor read, nor look at minerals, nor do anything else that I like . . . because of the misery that I know of." Ruskin's revolt against our social order, like his revolt... | |
 | William Gershom Collingwood - 1893 - 390 pages
...reading. It is not so much in the form of epigram, here in " Fors;" though there is epigram, as thus: " I am not an unselfish person, nor an Evangelical one;...to expect to be rewarded for it in another world." Then again of the sort of journalism he would like to see: " I cannot say whether it would ever pay... | |
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