The seven lamps of architecture : lectures on architecture and painting : the study of architecture (1900)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Dana Estes & Co · leaf 274
he leaves, and point them atthe bottom also. For this simple reason, that, while in architecture you arecontinually called upon to do what may be umiecessary forthe sake of beauty, you are never called upon to do what ia * I am at present aware only of one tree, the tulip tree, which has an… … ■ ^-■:.- ■iiji!mmmmnm^ Pig. T. PLATE lV.-(Page 230-Vol. V.)Window in Dumblane Cathedral. AND PAINTING, 231 inconvenient for the sake of beauty. You want the level win«dow sill to lean upon, or to allow the window to open on abalcony: the eye and the common sense of the beholder re-quire this…
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