| On the Old Road: Vol. 1 Contributor(s): Ruskin, John (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798678028846 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $19.31 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections - History | Ancient - General - Art |
| Physical Information: 1.27" H x 6" W x 9" (1.82 lbs) 570 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "In seven days more I shall be fifty-nine;-which (practically) is all the same as sixty; but, be-ing asked by the wife of my dear old friend, W. H.Harrison, to say a few words of our old rela-tions together, I find myself, in spite of all theseyears, a boy again, -partly in the mere thoughtof, and renewed sympathy with, the cheerfulheart of my old literary master, and partly in in-stinctive terror lest, wherever he is in celestial cir-cles, he should catch me writing bad grammar, orputting wrong stops, and should set the tableturning, or the like. For he was inexorable in suchmatters, and many a sentence in "Modern Paint-ers," which I had thought quite beautifully turnedout after a forenoon's work on it, had to be turnedoutside-in, after all, and cut into the smallestpieces and sewn up again, because he had foundout there wasn't a nominative in it, or a genitive, or a conjunction, or something else indispensableto a sentence's decent existence and position inlife." |
