Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London, G. Allen · leaf 127
rightly touched, by every return of morn-ing and evening rays ; while the hues of ourcathedrals have died like the iris out ofthe cloud ; and the temples whose azureand purple once flamed above the Grecianpromontories, stand in their faded white-ness, like snows which the sunset has leftcold. XIX.… … THE LAMP OF TRUTH. 95 There are two reasons, both weighty, againstthis practice: one, that all cast and machine ywork is bad, as work; the~otIier,~TITat it is dis-hofleST Of its badness I shall speak in anotherplace, that being evidently no efficient reasonagainst its use when other cannot be had.…
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