Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 113
o the walls of the church, and those ofBeauvais obliquely to them: and this difference is even a moreessential one than that between the smooth surface of the oneand the reedy complication of the other. The two squares herein the margin (Fig. XV.) are exactly of the same size, but their expression… … square is by preference set evenly,the Gothic square obliquely; and that so constantly, thatwherever we find the level or even square occurring as aprevailing form, either in plan or decoration, in early northernwork, there we may at least suspect the presence of asouthern or Greek influence; and,…
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