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The stones of Venice (1890)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 757

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It will be seen that the Venetianone is far more simple and severe,yet singularly piquant, the blackpenetrations telling sharply on theplain broad surface. Far inferiorin beauty, it has yet one point ofsuperiority to that of Abbeville,that it proclaims itself more defi-nitely to be stone. The other…

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