Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 85
es, owing to their manifest compliance with the firstconditions of unity and symmetry, being to really noble 42 LrNES. 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… … P Fig. 8. § 17. In mechanically drawn patterns of dress, Alham-bra and common Moorish ornament, Greek mouldings,common flamboyant traceries, common Corinthian andIonic capitals, and such other work, lines of this declaredkind (generally to be classed under the head of doggrel LINES. 43…
Art · Aesthetics
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