Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 317
habitually em-ployed ; and certainly none so graceful, so attractive, so endur-ingly delightful in their nobleness. Yet, of this pure andgraceful ornamentation, Professor Willis says, a practice moredestructive of architectural grandeur can hardly be conceived :and modern architects have… … THE WALL VEIL AND SHAFT. 291 as, for instance, the back of the Bank. The lines on the Bankmay, perhaps, be considered typical of accounts ; but ingeneral the walls, if ieft destitute of them, would have been asmuch fairer than the walls charged with them, as a sheet oiwhite paper is than the leaf…
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