Library Edition | |
THE COMPLETE WORKS | |
JOHN RUSKIN | |
| TIME AND TIDE | |
| QUEEN OF THE AIR | |
| LECTURES ON ART AND LANDSCAPE | |
| ARATRA PENTELICI | |
| NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | |
| NEW YORK | CHICAGO |
BEFORE THE
IN HILARY TERM, 1870.
| LECTURE I. | |
| INAUGURAL | 1 |
| LECTURE II. | |
| THE RELATION OF ART TO RELIGION | 24 |
| LECTURE III. | |
| THE RELATION OF ART TO MORALS | 46 |
| LECTURE IV. | |
| THE RELATION OF ART TO USE | 66 |
| LECTURE V. | |
| LINE | 86 |
| LECTURE VI. | |
| LIGHT | 102 |
| LECTURE VII. | |
| COLOUR | 123 |
The following lectures were the most important piece of my literary workdone with unabated power, best motive, and happiest concurrence ofcircumstance. They were written and delivered while my mother yet lived,and had vividest sympathy in all I was attempting;—while also myfriends put unbroken trust in me, and the course of study I had followedseemed to fit me for the acceptance of noble tasks and graverresponsibilities than those only of a curious traveler, or casualteacher.
Men of the present world may smile at the sanguine utterances of thefirst four lectures: but it has not been wholly my own fault that theyhave remained unfulfilled; nor do I retract one word of hope for thesuccess of other masters, nor a single promise made to the sincerity of