Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 171
tretched in burning breadth above the white and square-set groups of the southern architecture. But this difference be-tween its slope in the northern and southern structure is a matterof far greater importance than is commonly supposed, and it isthis to which I would especially direct the readers… … * I do not speak of the true dome, because I have not studied its constructionenough to know at what largeness of scale it begins to be rather a tour de force thana convenient or natural form of roof, and because the ordinary spectators choice amongits various outlines must always be dependent on…
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