Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York: John Wiley · leaf 254
I can, on the opposite plate, some ten or elevenlines from natural forms of very different substances and scale :the first, a &, is in the original, I think, the most beautiful simplecurve I have ever seen in my life; it is a curve about threequarters of a mile long, formed by the surface of a… … decoration. XX. THE MATEEIAL OF OKNAMENT. 225 glacier, which is of course entirely dependent on their oppositionto its descent; softened, however, into unity by the snow, whichrarely melts on this high glacier surface. The line d c is some mile and a half or two miles long; it ispart of the flank…
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