Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 167
roofs;whether rising in ridgy darkness,like a grey slope of slaty mountains,over the precipitous walls of thenorthern cathedrals, or stretched inburning breadth above the whiteand square-set groups of the south-ern architecture. But this differ-ence between its slope in the northern and southern… … Fto. XXXVII. * I do not speak of the true dome, because I have not studied its ron-struction enough to know at what largeness of scale it begins to be rathera tonr deforce than a convenient or natural form of roof, and because theordinary spectators choice among its various outlines must always be…
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