Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 330
x cornice. In all thefigures, a, b, c, d, Plate XV., the dotted line is at the sameslope, and represents an average profile of the root of cornices(a. Fig. v., p. 75) ; the curve of the salvia leaf is applied to itia each case, first v/ith its roundest curvature up, then withits round(>st… … Plate XV.—Cokmce Pkofiles. THE CORNICE AND CAPITAL. 301 nices iu the world ; represent tliera, I mean, as central types:for in any of the profiles an infinite number of slopes may begiven to the dotted line of the root (which in these four fig-tu-es is always at the same angle); and on eacli of…
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