Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 298
Fig. LVI. THE EDGE AND FILLET. 269 … stance of wall; but he overlaid it with the wealth of ocean,with the most precious foreign marbles. You might fancyearly Venice one wilderness of brick, which a petrifying seahad beaten upon till it coated it with marble : at first a darkcity—washed white by the sea foam. And I told you beforethat…
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