Part 3 (1/2)

Not so It will need no prolonged thought to convince us that in the hills the purposes of their Maker have indeed been accoh the sin or folly of men, He ever pereneral language held concerning them, or from any directly traceable results, that mountains have had serious influence on human intellect; but it will not, I think, be difficult to show that their occult influence has been both constant and essential to the progress of the race

[24] In tracing the _whole_ of the deep enjoyment to s are connected with the observance of rural life, or with that of architecture None of these feelings arise out of the landscape properly so called: the pleasure hich we see a peasant's garden fairly kept, or a plough at a cottage door, being wholly separate from that which we find in the fields or commons around them; and the beauty of architecture, or the associations connected with it, in likethe uish between the abstract character of the unassisted landscape, and the charm which it derives from the architecture Much of the rey village churches and turreted farmhouses, not to speak of its cathedrals, castles, and beautifully placed cities [Ruskin]

[25] One of the principal reasons for the false supposition that Switzerland is not picturesque, is the error ofpine forest in reen, whereas its true colour is always purple, at distances of even two or threedown the Montanvert look for an aperture, three or four inches wide, between the near pine branches, through which, standing eight or ten feet froere

Those forests are not above two or two and a half miles from him; but he will find the aperture is filled by a tint of nearly pure azure or purple, not by green [Ruskin]

[26] The Savoyard's name for its flower, ”Pain du Bon Dieu,” is very beautiful; from, I believe, the supposed resemblance of its white and scattered blossom to the fallen manna, [Ruskin]

[27] _Ezekiel_ vii, 10; _Hosea_ vi, 3

[28] In ”The Mountain Gloo

[29] Ruskin refers to _The Fulfilling of the Scripture_, a book by Robert Fle [1630-94]

SUNRISE ON THE ALPS[30]

VOLUME I, SECTION 3, PART 2, CHAPTER 4

Stand upon the peak of soht mists first rise from off the plains, and watch their white and lake-like fields, as they float in level bays and winding gulfs about the islanded summits of the lower hills, untouched yet by more than dawn, colder and ht; watch when the first sunbeam is sent upon the silver channels, how the foa surface parts and passes away, and down under their depths the glittering city and green pasture lie like Atlantis,[31] between the white paths of winding rivers; the flakes of light falling everythe starry spires, as the wreathed surges break and vanish above thees of the dark hills shorten their grey shadows upon the plain Wait a little longer, and you shall see those scatteredup towards you, along the winding valleys, till they crouch in quiet ht,[32] upon the broad breasts of the higher hills, whose leagues of massy undulation will ht, until they fade away, lost in its lustre, to appear again above, in the serene heaven, like a wild, bright, impossible dream, foundationless and inaccessible, their very bases vanishi+ng in the unsubstantial andblue of the deep lake below[33] Wait yet a little longer, and you shall see those ather the the promontories, her and higher into the sky, and casting longer shadows athwart the rocks; and out of the pale blue of the horizon you will see for a troop of narrow, dark, pointed vapours, which will cover the sky, inch by inch, with their grey network, and take the light off the landscape with an eclipse which will stop the singing of the birds and the ether; and then you will see horizontal bars of black shadow for under them, and lurid wreaths create the the shoulders of the hills; you never see them form, but when you look back to a place which was clear an instant ago, there is a cloud on it, hanging by the precipices, as a hawk pauses over his prey And then you will hear the sudden rush of the awakened wind, and you will see those watch-towers of vapour swept away fro curtains of opaque rain let down to the valleys, swinging fro in pale colu its surface into foao And then, as the sun sinks, you shall see the stor their broad sides ss of capricious vapour, now gone, now gathered again; while the s like a red-hot ball beside you, and as if you could reach it, plunges through the rushi+ng wind and rolling cloud with headlong fall, as if itall the air about it with blood And then you shall hear the fainting tereen halo kindling on the suhter yet, till the large white circle of the slowthe barred clouds, step by step, line by line; star after star she quenches with her kindling light, setting in their stead an arive light upon the earth, which ether, hand in hand, company by company, troop by troop, so measured in their unity of motion, that the whole heaven seems to roll with them, and the earth to reel under theain becoainst it in darkness, like waves of a wild sea, are drowned one by one in the glory of its burning: watch the white glaciers blaze in their winding paths about the hty serpents with scales of fire: watch the colu doards, chas avalanches cast down in keen strea each his tribute of driven snow, like altar-sht of their silent do that heaven about theh its purple lines of lifted cloud, casting a new glory on every wreath as it passes by, until the whole heaven, one scarlet canopy, is interwoven with a roof of waving flas of els: and then, when you can look no ladness, and when you are bowed doith fear and love of the Maker and Doer of this, tell e unto umentative nature have been omitted from this selection

[31] A mythical island in the Atlantic

[32] I have often seen the white, thin, ed with the seven colours of the prism I am not aware of the cause of this phenomenon, for it takes place not e stand with our backs to the sun, but in clouds near the sun itself, irregularly and over indefinite spaces, so place in the body of the cloud

The colours are distinct and vivid, but have a kind of metallic lustre upon them [Ruskin]

[33] Lake Lucerne [Ruskin]

[34] The implication is that Turner has best delivered it

THE GRAND STYLE[35]

VOLUME III, CHAPTER I

In taking up the clue of an inquiry, now intermitted for nearly ten years, it may be well to do as a traveller would, who had to recouideless country; and, ascending, as it were, some little hill beside our road, note how far we have already advanced, and what pleasantest e ress

I endeavoured, in the beginning of the first volume, to divide the sources of pleasure open to us in Art into certain groups, which ht conveniently be studied in succession After soroups were, in the , first, of the pleasures taken in perceiving simple resemblance to Nature (Ideas of Truth); secondly, of the pleasures taken in the beauty of the things chosen to be painted (Ideas of Beauty); and, lastly, of pleasures taken in the s (Ideas of Relation)

The first volu of the ideas of Truth, was chiefly occupied with an inquiry into the various success hich different artists had represented the facts of Nature,--an inquiry necessarily conducted very i to the want of pictorial illustration