Frondes Agrestes: Readings in 'Modern Painters'
by John Ruskin
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Chapters (17)
- FRONDES AGRESTES.
- READINGS IN 'MODERN PAINTERS.'
- Chosen At Her Pleasure, By The Author's Friend, The Younger Lady Of The Thwaite, Coniston.
- 'Spargit agrestes tibi silva frondes.'
- London: George Allen, 156, Charing Cross Road. 1902. Printed By Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. At the Ballantyne Press
- PREFACE.
- FRONDES AGRESTES.
- SECTION I. — PRINCIPLES OF ART.
- SECTION II. — POWER AND OFFICE OF IMAGINATION.
- SECTION III. — ILLUSTRATIVE: THE SKY.
- SECTION IV. — ILLUSTRATIVE: STREAMS AND SEA.
- SECTION V. — ILLUSTRATIVE: MOUNTAINS.
- SECTION VI. — ILLUSTRATIVE: STONES.
- SECTION VII. — ILLUSTRATIVE: PLANTS AND FLOWERS.
- SECTION VIII. — EDUCATION.
- SECTION IX. — MORALITIES.
- FINIS.
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