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The seven lamps of architecture : lectures on architecture and painting : the study of architecture (1900)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Dana Estes & Co · leaf 120

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. It retained nothing but its beauty and itspower; both the highest, but both restrained. The Doricflutings were of irregular number—the Venetian mouldingswere unchangeable. The Doric manner of ornament admit-ted no temptation, it was the fasting of an anchorite—theVenetian ornament embraced, while… … PLATE Vin.-(Page 95—Vol. V.)Window fiiom the Ca FoscArvi, Venice. THE LAMP OF POWER. ^5 tian over his own exuberance of imagination ; the calm andsolemn restraint with which, his mind filled with thoughts offlowing leafage and fiery life, he gives those thoughts expres-sion for an instant, and then…

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