Art culture: a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Platt, W. H. (William Henry), 1821-1898 · New York : Wiley · leaf 83
es, owing to their manifest compliance with the firstconditions of unity and symmetry, being to really noble 42 LINES. ornamentation what the sing-song of a bad reader ofpoetry, laying regular emphasis on every required syllableof every foot, is to the varied, irregular, unexpected, inim-itable… … Fig. 8. § 17. Tn mechanically (b-a\vn patterns of dress, Alham-bra and common ]V[<)orish ornament, Greek mouldings,common flamboyant traceries, common Corinthian andIonic capitals, and such other work, lines of this declaredkind (generally to be classed nuder the head of doggrel LINES. 43
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