Fors Clavigera (Volume 4 of 8) - Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain

One day last November, at Oxford, as I was going in at the private door of the University galleries, to give a lecture on the Fine Arts in Florence, I was hindered for a moment by a nice little girl, whipping a top on the pavement. She was a very nice little girl; and rejoiced wholly in her whip, and top; but could not inflict the reviving chastisement with all the activity that was in her, because she had on a large and dilapidated pair of womans shoes, which projected the full length of her own little foot behind it and before; and being securely fastened to her ancles in the manner of mocassins, admitted, indeed, of dextrous glissades, and other modes of progress quite sufficient for ordinary purposes; but not conveniently of all the evolutions proper to the pursuit of a whipping-top. There were some worthy people at my lecture, and I think the lecture was one of my best. It gave some really trustworthy information about art in Florence six hundred years ago. But all the time I was speaking, I knew that nothing spoken about art, either by myself or other people, could be of the least use to anybody there. For their primary business, and mine, was with art in Oxford, now; not with art in Florence, then; and art in Oxford now was absolutely dependent on [3]our power of solving the questionwhich I knew that my audience would not even allow to be proposed for solutionWhy have our little girls large shoes? ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 67544
Author: Ruskin, John
Release Date: Mar 2, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: George Allen,1871
Publication Date: 1871
Publisher Country: United Kingdom