I honestly feel really bad for Ruskin. All the rest of Milverton's goons just left. They were mercenaries, they were paid to be there, and their paycheck just died.
But Ruskin is up here looking for him, all concerned.
An unlooked-for bit of trivia from Richard Ellmann’s Four Dubliners:
Wilde was as concerned for his soul as for his body, and however titillated he was by Pater, he looked to Ruskin for spiritual guidance. He made a point of attending Ruskin's lectures in 1874 on Florentine art. Ruskin was apt to interrupt his description of a painting by exhorting his hearers to do something, such as to fall in love at the first opportunity. He reminded them that the previous spring he had proposed that instead of developing their bodies in pointless games, in "fruitless slashing of the river," in learning "to leap and to row, to hit a ball with a bat," they should join him in improving the countryside. Where there had been nothing but malarial swamp at North Hinksey, they should help him construct a flower-bordered country road. It was to be an ethical adventure like building a gothic cathedral, rather than narcissistic athleticism.
Although Wilde found rising at dawn more difficult than most men -- his mother never rose till afternoon -- he overcame his languor for Ruskin's sake. Later he bragged comically that he had enjoyed the distinction of being allowed to fill "Mr. Ruskin's especial wheelbarrow," and of being instructed by the master himself in the mysteries of wheeling such an object from place to place. The road was then in process of being paved, digging having been accomplished the previous spring. It was not much of a road, but it was for Wilde the road to Ruskin, who invited his sweaty workers to breakfast after their exertions. The work went on to the end of term, after which Ruskin was off to Venice, and Wilde could again lie late abed, as the road for its part slowly sank from sight. No trace of it remains.
His friendship with Ruskin was gratifying and instructive. He would write to him later, "The dearest memories of my Oxford days are my walks and talks with you, and from you I learned nothing but what was good." [. . .] Thanks to Ruskin, Wilde did not fall intot he individualistic aestheticism favored by Pater; from the start he argued as Ruskin did that art had a role in the improvement of society.
I'm so charmed by the thought of young Wilde and Prof. Ruskin.
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel." - John Ruskin . . Reposted from @exclusive_bird - A starling murmuration visiting Rome, Italy These murmurations are known to arrive from all directions, seeking out warmer weather – and when they get to their destination, it’s impossible to miss them thanks to the beautiful swirling shapes and patterns they draw in the sky. Have you heard of them before? By @shachnevavika . #birds #murmuration #Rome #Italy #Ruskin https://www.instagram.com/p/CfdbSolg1-R/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, 'See! This our fathers did for us.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
John Ruskin, Modern Painters: Volume 3. Of Many Things, 1888
I honestly think my lizard just does not think he got his finger stuck in a little hole and then just kept trying to move as if his finger was not stuck in a hole and then tried to eat a wire
The Backstreet Boys at the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards. (Photo by Glenn Francis/Pacific Pro Digital Photography)
Fun fact: The average age of the Backstreet Boys is 47. For four of the five group members, it’s been 30 years-plus since they were legally boys.
The baby of the group, Nick Carter, is 43 and passed into legal manhood a mere 25 years ago. Seems like yesterday, doesn’t it?
Nick,…