Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 327
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 conceivedand modern architects have substituted… … 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 left destitute of them, would have been asmuch fairer than the walls charged with them, as a sheet ofwhite paper is than the leaf…
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