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" Why we receive pleasure from some forms and colours, and not from others, is no more to be asked or answered than why we like sugar and dislike wormwood. "
The North British review - Página 406
1847
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Frondes Agrestes: Readings in Modern Painters

John Ruskin - 1875 - 204 páginas
...to our moral nature in its purity and perfection ; but why we receive pleasure from some forms and colours and not from others, is no more to be asked...answered than why we like sugar and dislike wormwood. 2. The temper by which right taste is formed is characteristically patient. It dwells upon what is...
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Physiological Aesthetics

Grant Allen - 1877 - 306 páginas
..."WHY we receive pleasure from some forms and j colours and not from others," says Professor Euskin, ' "is no more to be asked or answered than why we like sugar and dislike wormwood." The questions thus summarily dismissed by our great living authority on ^Esthetics are exactly the ones...
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The Contemporary Review, Volumen31

1878 - 916 páginas
...Why we receive pleasure from some forms and colours and not from others,' says Professor Kuskin, ' is no more to be asked or answered, than why we like sugar and dislike wormwood.' The questions thus summarily dismissed by our great living authority on ./Esthetics, are exactly the ones...
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Precious stones [quotations] (collected by H.L.S. Lear). Rubies (Diamonds ...

Henrietta Louisa Lear - 1881 - 104 páginas
...to our moral nature in its purity and perfection ; but why we receive pleasure from some forms and colours, and not from others, is no more to be asked...answered, than why we like sugar and dislike wormwood.— J. RUsKIN. XCIV. RELIGION itself is beautiful and heavenly, but the machinery Machinery of, rilifia,....
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Works, Volumen1

John Ruskin - 1887 - 516 páginas
...receive pleasure 1 1. Definition of , / , . a j. j_ .1 the term "beauti- from some torms and colors, and not from others, is no more to be asked or answered...why we like sugar and dislike wormwood. The utmost subtilty of investigation will only lead us to ultimate instincts and principles of human nature, for...
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pt. 1. Of general principles. pt. 2. Of truth

John Ruskin - 1888 - 1230 páginas
...we receive pleasure S 1. Definition of ' jij . . .1. the term " beauti- from some forms and colors, and not from others, is no more to be asked or answered...why we like sugar and dislike wormwood. The utmost subtilty of investigation will only lead us to ultimate instincts and principles of human nature, for...
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The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion

John Ruskin - 1888 - 510 páginas
...way, or in some degree, beautiful. Why we receive pleasure from some forma and colors, and not rrom others, is no more to be asked or answered than why we like sugar and dislike wormwood. The utmost subtilty of investigation will only lead us to ultimate instincts and principles of human nature, for...
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The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion, Selected ...

John Ruskin - 1889 - 512 páginas
...call in some way, or in some degree, beautiful. Why we receive pleasure from some forms and colors, and not from others, is no more to be asked or answered...why we like sugar and dislike wormwood. The utmost subtilty of investigation will only lead us to ultimate instincts and principles of human nature, for...
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The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion ..., Volumen1

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1890 - 348 páginas
...call in some way, or in some degree, beautiful. Why we receive pleasure from some forms and colors, and not from others, is no more to be asked or answered...why we like sugar and dislike wormwood. The utmost subtilty of investigation will only lead us to ultimate instincts and principles of human nature, for...
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The Complete Works of John Ruskin, Volumen20

John Ruskin - 1891 - 452 páginas
...or in some degree, beautiful. Why the' term "beau- we receive pleasure from some forms and colors, and not from others, is no more to be asked or answered...why we like sugar and dislike wormwood. The utmost subtilty of investigation will only lead us to ultimate instincts and principles of human nature, for...
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