 I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this : Was it done with enjoyment — was the carver happy while he was about it ? It may be the hardest work possible, and the harder because so much pleasure was taken in it ; but...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 3481851Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Ruskin - 1849 - 306 páginas
...very noble vitality in the art of the time. XXR7". I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this : Was it done with enjoyment — was the carver happy while he was about it ? It may be the hardest work possible, and the harder because so much pleasure was taken in it ; but... | |
 | 1851 - 792 páginas
...miserable self-complacency, a contentment in onr wretched doings, when we might have been looking at God'a doings." After this, can we venture to admire the...is simply this : Was it done with enjoyment — was tlte carver happy while he was about it?" Happy art ! where the workman is sure to give happiness if... | |
 | 1851 - 790 páginas
...entanglement in some such strange manner as this : — " I believe the right question to ask, ivith respect to all ornament, is simply this: Was it done with enjoyment — и-as 1he atrrer happy e•1life be was about it .*" Happy art ! where the workman is sure to give... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 páginas
...innovation, when the one is indolent and the other unwise. I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this : Was it done with enjoyment — was the carver happy while he was about it ? It may be the hardest work possible, and the harder because so much pleasure was taken in it; but... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1865 - 284 páginas
...which it was fashioned, we have the following : — " I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this : Was it done with enjoyment — was the carver happy while he was about it ? It may be the hardest work possible, and the harder because so much pleasure was taken in it ; but... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1865 - 284 páginas
...which it was fashioned, we have the following :— " I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this : Was it done with enjoyment —was the carver happy while he was about it ? It may be the hardest work possible, and the harder because so much pleasure was taken in it; but... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1866 - 456 páginas
...proves very noble vitality in the art of the time. XXIV. I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this : Was it done with enjoyment — was the carver happy while he was about it ? It may be the hardest work possible, and the harder because so much pleasure was taken in it ; but... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1849 - 588 páginas
...some remarks which cannot be too widely circulated. ' I believe the right question to ask respecting all ornament is simply this — was it done with enjoyment? — was the carver happy while he was about it? It may be the hardest work possible, and the harder because so much pleasure was taken in it ; but... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 páginas
...— SVI ch. xxi. §3,4. TEST OF GOOD ORNAMENT. — I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this : Was it done with enjoyment — was the carver happy while he was about it ? It may be the hardest work possible, and the harder because so much pleasure was taken in it ; but... | |
 | 1870 - 674 páginas
...already referred to. Let him speak for himself:— ' I believe the right question to ask respecting all ornament is simply this, Was it done with enjoyment? was the carver happy while he was about it? It may be the hardest work possible, and the harder because so much pleasure was taken in it; but it... | |
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