Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London, G. Allen · leaf 296
fig. 8. Itis but the arresting upon the stone workof a stem or two of the living flowers,which are rarely wanting in the windowabove (and which, by the by, the Frenchand Italian peasantry often trellis with ex-quisite taste about their casements). Thisarabesque, relieved as it is in darknessfrom… … THE LAMP OF BEAUTY. 249 that unnatural objects were associatedwith these, and armour, and musical in-struments, and wild meaningless scrollsand curled shields, and other such fancies,became principal in its subjects, its doomwas sealed, and with it that of the archi-tecture of the world./^XXXV,…
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