The Mystery of Life
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— she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing he cannot choose but pay — How has she cheapen'd Paradise !
How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spill'd the wine.
Which, spent with due respective thrift.
Had made brutes men, and men divine!"* * Coventry Patmore.
58 JOHN RUSKIN This much, then, respecting the relations of lovers I beHeve you will accept. But what we too often doubt is the fitness of the continuance of such a relation throughout the whole ...of human Hfe. We think it right in the lover and mistress, not in the husband and wife. That is to say, we think that a reverent and tender duty is due to one whose affection we still doubt, and whose character we as yet do but partially and distantly discern; and that this reverence and duty are to be withdrawn when the affection has become wholly and limitlessly our own, and the character has been so sifted and tried that we fear not to entrust it with the happiness of our lives. Do you not see how ignoble this is, as well as how unreasonable?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
— she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing he cannot choose but pay — How has she cheapen'd Paradise !
How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spill'd the wine.
Which, spent with due respective thrift.
Had made brutes men, and men divine!"* * Coventry Patmore.
58 JOHN RUSKIN This much, then, respecting the relations of lovers I beHeve you will accept. But what we too often doubt is the fitness of the continuance of such a relation throughout the whole ...of human Hfe. We think it right in the lover and mistress, not in the husband and wife. That is to say, we think that a reverent and tender duty is due to one whose affection we still doubt, and whose character we as yet do but partially and distantly discern; and that this reverence and duty are to be withdrawn when the affection has become wholly and limitlessly our own, and the character has been so sifted and tried that we fear not to entrust it with the happiness of our lives. Do you not see how ignoble this is, as well as how unreasonable?
What to read after The Mystery of Life?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 to read onlineMoreLess
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