Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 238
ouni, a line some three miles long ; I m is tlie line ofthe side of a willow leaf traced by laying the leaf on the paper ;n 0, one of the innumerable groups of curves at the lip of apaper Nautilus ; 7), a spiral, traced on the paj^er round a Ser-pula.; q r, the leaf of the Alisma Plantago with its… … THE MATERIAL OF ORNAMENT. 223 and less agreeable than any of the others which -would be seenas independent lines. But all agree in their character ofchangeful curvature, the mountain and glacier lines only ex-celling the rest in delicacy and richness of transition. § XX, Why lines of this kind are…
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