Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- “FORS CLAVIGERA”: VOLUME VII. (1877): LETTERS 73–84
- SYNOPSIS OF LETTERS 73–84
- LETTER 73 COMMISSARIAT
- LETTER 74 FATHER-LAW
- LETTER 75 STAR LAW
- LETTER 76 OUR BATTLE IS IMMORTAL
- LETTER 77 THE LORD THAT BOUGHT US
- LETTER 78 THE SWORD OF MICHAEL
- LETTER 79 LIFE GUARDS OF NEW LIFE
- LETTER 80 THE TWO CLAVIGERÆ
- LETTER 81 THE FIRST EPISTLE OF JOHN
- LETTER 82 HEAVENLY CHOIRS
- LETTER 83 HESIOD'S MEASURE
- LETTER 84 THE LAST WORDS OF THE VIRGIN
- “FORS CLAVIGERA”: VOLUME VIII. (1878–1884): LETTERS 85–96
- APPENDIX: ADDITIONAL PASSAGES FROM THE MANUSCRIPT OF, AND LETTERS RELATING TO, “FORS CLAVIGERA”
- INDEX
- Plate section
LETTER 84 - THE LAST WORDS OF THE VIRGIN
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- “FORS CLAVIGERA”: VOLUME VII. (1877): LETTERS 73–84
- SYNOPSIS OF LETTERS 73–84
- LETTER 73 COMMISSARIAT
- LETTER 74 FATHER-LAW
- LETTER 75 STAR LAW
- LETTER 76 OUR BATTLE IS IMMORTAL
- LETTER 77 THE LORD THAT BOUGHT US
- LETTER 78 THE SWORD OF MICHAEL
- LETTER 79 LIFE GUARDS OF NEW LIFE
- LETTER 80 THE TWO CLAVIGERÆ
- LETTER 81 THE FIRST EPISTLE OF JOHN
- LETTER 82 HEAVENLY CHOIRS
- LETTER 83 HESIOD'S MEASURE
- LETTER 84 THE LAST WORDS OF THE VIRGIN
- “FORS CLAVIGERA”: VOLUME VIII. (1878–1884): LETTERS 85–96
- APPENDIX: ADDITIONAL PASSAGES FROM THE MANUSCRIPT OF, AND LETTERS RELATING TO, “FORS CLAVIGERA”
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
“They have no wine”
“Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it.”
Brantwood, 29th Oct., 1877
1. These, the last recorded words of the Mother of Christ, and the only ones recorded during the period of His ministry (the “desiring to see thee” being told Him by a stranger's lips), I will take, with due pardon asked of faithful Protestant readers, for the motto, since they are the sum, of all that I have been permitted to speak, in God's name, now these seven years.
The first sentence of these two, contains the appeal of the workman's wife, to her son, for the help of the poor of all the earth.
The second, the command of the Lord's mother, to the people of all the earth, that they should serve the Lord.
2. This day last year, I was walking with a dear friend, and resting long, laid on the dry leaves, in the sunset, under the vineyard-trellises of the little range of hills which, five miles west of Verona, look down on the Lago di Garda at about the distance from its shore that Cana is from the Lake of Galilee;—(the Madonna had walked to the bridal some four miles and a half). It was a Sunday evening, golden and calm; all the vine leaves quiet; and the soft clouds held at pause in the west, round the mountains that Virgil knew so well, blue above the level reeds of Mincio.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 286 - 304Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010