Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 254
will it be satisfied ? It craves spontaneously after a great style of art,which it sees to have been once the birthright of ourrace. It demands that we should—I will not saysimply revive that style of art, but that we should revi-vify it: not that it should be reproduced as a splendidpageant, to be… … 2IO LECTURES ON [lecture v. style, as the living medium for the expression of ourartistic aspirations, but that we should cause it to takeroot, to spring forth, to germinate and ramify—toshape itself to all the demands of our age, and toadapt itself to its materials, its discoveries, its…
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