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The nature of Gothic : a chapter of The stones of Venice (1892)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Morris, William, 1834-1896, Kelmscott Press · Hammersmith : Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press ; London and Orpington : Published by George Allen · leaf 53

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hough not in words. All the pleasure which the people of the nineteenth cen^ tury take in art, is in pictures, sculps ture, minor objects of virtu or me^ diaeval architecture,which we enjoy under the term picturesque: no pleasure is taken anywhere in modern buildings,& we find all men of true…

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