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A Joy For Ever, by John Ruskin
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Title: A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)
Author: John Ruskin
Release Date: November 30, 2006 [EBook #19980]
Language: English
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"A JOY FOR EVER"; (AND ITS PRICE IN THE MARKET): BEING THE SUBSTANCE (WITH ADDITIONS) OF TWO LECTURES ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ART, Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857.
BY
JOHN RUSKIN, LL.D.,
HONORARY STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, AND HONORARY FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD.
"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever."--KEATS.
SIXTEENTH THOUSAND. LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN, 156, CHARING CROSS ROAD. 1904. [All rights reserved] Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. At the Ballantyne Press
PREFACE
TO THE RE-ISSUE OF 1880.
The title of this book,--or, more accurately, of its subject;--for no author was ever less likely than I have lately become, to hope for perennial pleasure to his readers from what has cost himself the most pains,--will be, perhaps, recognised by some as the last clause of the line chosen from Keats by the good folks of Manchester, to be wr
A Joy For Ever; (And Its Price in the Market)
by John Ruskin