“get in” (Works [1903])—The editors of the
Library Edition
inserted “(
sic)” here, presumably objecting to
Ruskinʼs choice of preposition,
but they did not tamper with the parallelism that he evidently intended in this series of predicate adjective phrases
(
Ruskin, Works, 2:345).
In MS IX, Ruskin omitted a hyphen to indicate that the syllables of burning are divided between lines.
“gave to life” (MS IX; Works [1903])—The editors of the
Library Edition
added a note to gloss the meaning of this phrase as “gave life to”; however, as their restraint suggests,
Ruskinʼs inversion appears not to be a slip, but what caught his ear
(
Ruskin, Works, 2:345 n. 3).