Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 153
oliation, socalled, of penetrated spaces in stone surfaces, already enoughexplained in the Seven Lamps, Chap. III., p. 85 d f<eq. Itis degraded in dignity, and loses its usefulness, exactly injiroportion to its multiplic-afion on the arch. In later archi-tecture, especially English Tudor, it is… … Plate IV.—Aittii Masonry. THE ARCH MASONIiT. 141 exact application to tbe slioulcler of the curve of the arch,varies with the direction of the weight to be sustained. I havospent more than a month, and that in hard work too, in merelytrying to get the forms of cusps into perfect order : whei-ebythe…
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