vol. iii., p. 211.
[34] _Ibid._, vol. ii., p. 4.
[35] _Vide supra_, p. 35.
[36] "I reckon him the remarkablest Pontiff that has darkened God's
daylight. . . . Here is a Supreme Priest who believes God to be--what,
in the name of God, _does_ he believe God to be?--and discerns that all
worship of God is a scenic phantasmagory of wax-candles, organ-blasts,
Gregorian chants, mass-brayings, purple monsignori, etc." ("Past and
Present," Book iii., chap. i.).
[37] Ibid., Book iv., chap. i.
[38] With Morris, too, when an Oxford undergraduate, "Carlyle's 'Past and
Present,'" says his biographer, "stood alongside of 'Modern Painters' as
inspired and absolute truth."
[39] For a systematic exposition of Ruskin's social and political
philosophy, the reader should consult "John Ruskin, Social Reformer," by
J. A. Hobson, London, 1898.
[40] _Vide supra_, pp. 279, 280.
[41] For a number of years, beginning with 1854, Ruskin taught drawing
classes in Maurice's Working Man's College.
[42] See "Characteristics" and "Signs of the Times."
[43] _Vide supra_, p. 321.
[44] Vol. ii., chap. vi., section xv., xvi. Morris reprinted the whole
chapter on the Kelmscott Press.
[45] "Victorian Poets," chap. vii., section vi.
[46] "An Epic of Women" (1870); "Lays of France" (1872); "Music and
Moonlight" (1874); "Songs of a Worker" (1881).
[47] "A Masque of Shadows" (1870): "Intaglios" (1871); "Songs of Life and
Death" (1872); "Lautrec" (1878); "New Poems" (1880).
[48] "A Gallery of Pigeons" (1873).
[49] "Arthur O'Shaughnessy." By Louise Chandler-Moulton, Cambridge and
Chicago, 1894.
[50] Swinburne, as a living author, is not represented in the "Treasury."
O'Shaughnessy's metrical originality is undoubted. But one of his finest
lyrics, "The Fountain of Tears," has an echo of Baudelaire's American
master, Edgar Poe, as well as of Swinburne;
"Very peaceful the place is, and solely
For piteous lamenting and sighing,
And those who come living or dying
Alike from their hopes and their fears:
Full of cypress-like shadows the place is,
And statues that cover their faces;
But out of the gloom springs the holy
And beautiful Fountain of Tears."
[51] See especially "Sir Erwin's Questing," "The Ballad of May Margaret,"
"The Westward Sailing," and "The Ballad of the King's Daughter" in "Songs
of Life and Death."
[52] In "An Epic of Women."
[53] "From time to time bright s
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