Definition of John Ruskin

1. Noun. British art critic (1819-1900).

Exact synonyms: Ruskin
Generic synonyms: Art Critic

Lexicographical Neighbors of John Ruskin

John Philip Marquand
John Philip Sousa
John Pierpont Morgan
John Q. Public
John Quincy Adams
John R. Major
John Reed
John Robinson Jeffers
John Rock
John Roebling
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
John Ross
John Rowlands
John Roy Major
John Rupert Firth
John Ruskin (current term)
John Scopes
John Scott Haldane
John Simmons Barth
John Singer Sargent
John Singleton Copley
John Smith
John Speke
John Steinbeck
John Stuart Mill
John Thomas Scopes
John Tradescant
John Trumbull
John Tuzo Wilson

Literary usage of John Ruskin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1900)
"The great life is over, and John Ruskin sleeps in the quiet churchyard on the shores of Coniston ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Consult Collingwood, 'Life and Work of John Ruskin' (1893), ... 'A Disciple of Plato' (1883); Waldstein, 'The Work of John Ruskin' (1894); Mather. ..."

3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1883)
"By John Ruskin. 3 vols. 8vo. With all the plates (54) and ... Hy John Ruskin. nmo. Cloth exira tall the plates), »2. SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE. ..."

4. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS John Ruskin [Lecture by Newell Dwight II ill is, pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, since 1899, previously of the Central ..."

5. Ruskin, Rossetti, Preraphaelitism: Papers 1854 to 1862 by William Michael Rossetti (1899)
"John Ruskin to WILLIAM ROSSETTI. Tins letter begins by referring to the American art-paper The Crai/tm. Its editor Mr. Stillman (then 11 landscape-painter ..."

6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1897)
"John Ruskin (1819-) BY JOHN C. VAN DYKE JT is not given every man to date an epoch from himself, to turn aside old conceptions, and to swing the whole ..."

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