Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 438
dows constantly cool.These long oblique shadows on the white surface are alwaysdelightful, and are alone sufficient to give the building char-acter. They are peculiar to the buildings of Spain and Italy ;for owing to the general darker colour of those of more north-erly climates, the shadows of… … 20 THE POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE. point always desirable, and in every kind of building, whetherwe have to do with lead, slate, tile, or thatch, one of extremedifficulty. This object is farther forwarded in the Italian cot-tage, by putting two or three windows up under the very eavesthemselves, which…
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