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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1884 Excerpt: ... Preparatory Study. I. John Ruskin (1819 ), the famous art-critic and essayist, was born in London, and educated at Oxford. His varied productions are all marked by singular eloquence and religious fervor. Buskin's prose is so like poetry in harmony, grace, and gorgeous imagery, that the absence of metrical arrangement does, not mar the melodious flow of the "prose-poet's" words. An earnest critic declares him " the most effective of English writers." II. Gen'tian (jen'shan), U'ehens, or licb/ens, lux u'ri anoe, blanch, tap'es tries, en dur'ance. Boss'es, knobs. Por'phy ry, a stone of red, purple, and green varieties, through which crystals are scattered. Ar'bo res'oent, like a tree. I'ris-dyed, colored like the rainbow. III. (3) What verb is understood after they? (3) After herbage? (4) Read the three participial phrases, and tell what noun each phrase modifies. (6) What verb is understood after child? What noun is object of this verb? (7) What verb is understood after iris-dyed? What is its nominative? LXXX.--Address to a Mummy. 1. And thou hast walked about (how strange a story!) In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous. 2. Speak! for thou long enough hast acted dummy, Thou hast a tongue--come, let us hear its tune; Thou 'rt standing on thy legs, above ground, mummy! Revisiting the glimpses of the moon, Not like thin ghosts or disembodied creatures, But with thy bones and flesh, and limbs and features. 3. Tell us--for doubtless thou canst recollect--To whom should we assign the Sphinx's fame? Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either Pyramid that bears his name? Is Pompey's pillar really a...
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