Fors clavigera : letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain (1894)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Bryan, Taylor · leaf 386
n. So they are support-ed on iron legs, thus :representing each, as faras any rational conjecturecan extend—the Devilstail pulled off, with agooses head stuck on thewrong end of it. Andwhat is more—two of thegeese-heads are withouteyes (I stooped down un-der the seat and rubbed the frost off them… … FOBS CLAVIGERA. 381 and the whole symbol is perfect, therefore,—as typical ofour English populace, fashionable and other, which seatsitself to admire prospects, in the present day. Now, not a hundred paces from these seats, there is a fineold church, with Norman door, and lancet east windows, andso…
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