St. Mark's rest : the history of Venice written for the help of the few travellers who still care for her monuments (1885)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Lovell · leaf 621
the wall. Nowin this figure I am obliged to separate the feathers by whitespaces, to show you them distinctly. In reality they are setas close to each other as can be, but putting them asclose as I can, you get a or b. Fig. 5, for the rough sectionof the wing, thick towards the birds head, and… … Fig. 4. THE SWALLOW. 45 CO very almost effortless, were even the direction of both actu-ally vertical. But they are vertical only with relation to thebirds body. In space they follow the forward flight, in asoftly curved line ; the downward stroke behig as eftective asthe bird chooses, the recovery…
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