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 77
mortal as well as its spiritual strength. Capable of sounding and sympathizing with the whole range of its passions, he brings one majestic harmony out of them all; he represents it fear^ lessly in all its acts and thoughts, in its haste, its anger, its sensuality, and its pride, as well as in its… … Naturalism which he is reluctant to behold, nothing that he isashamed to confess; with all that lives, triumph/ing, falling, or suffering, he claims kindred, eitherin majesty or in mercy, yet standing, in a sort, afaroff, unmoved even in the deepness of his sym^pathy; for the spirit within him is…
Architecture, Gothic
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