Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 247
kaleido-scope, and to produce a building which the present Euroj)eanpublic will think magnificent, though there may not be, fromfoundation to coping, one ray of invention, or any other intel-lectual merit, in the whole mass of it. But floral decoration, andthe disposition of mouldings, requke some… … Fig. XIX. THE NATURE OF G02HIC. 223 tion . and although, as I have just said, the noblest imagina-tion may be shown in the dispositions of traceries, there is farmore room for its play and power when those traceries areassociated with floral or animal ornament; and it is probable,d priori, that,…
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