[114] Wordsworth's "The world is too much with us."
[115] Pre-Raphaelitism, of course, excepted, which is a new phase
of art, in no wise considered in this chapter. Blake was sincere,
but full of wild creeds, and somewhat diseased in brain. [Ruskin.]
[116] Gower Street, a London street selected as typical of modern
ugliness.
Gaspar Poussin [1613-75], a French landscape painter, of the
pseudo-classical school.
[117] Of course this is meant only of the modern citizen or
country-gentleman, as compared with a citizen of Sparta or old
Florence. I leave it to others to say whether the "neglect of the
art of war" may or may not, in a yet more fatal sense, be predicated
of the English nation. War, _without_ art, we seem, with God's help,
able still to wage nobly. [Ruskin.]
[118] See _David Copperfield_, chap. 55 and 58. [Ruskin.]
[119] Ruskin proceeds to discuss Scott as he has discussed Homer.
The chapter on Turner that follows here is an almost equally good
illustration of Ruskin's ideas.
THE TWO BOYHOODS
VOLUME V, PART 9, CHAPTER 9
Born half-way between the mountains and the sea--that young George of
Castelfranco--of the Brave Castle:--Stout George they called him,
George of Georges, so goodly a boy he was--Giorgione.
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