Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 456
thecushion-like vegetation with which they are rounded and con-cealed. Varieties of the fern sometimes relieve the massyforms of the stonecrop, with their light and delicate leafage.Windows in the roof are seldom met with. Of the chimneyI shall speak hereafter. Such are the prevailing peculiarities… … 33 THE POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE. coming into the builders head ! V Even so, to this illustrationof an excellent rule, I wish particularly to direct attention ;that the material which Nature furnishes, in any given country,and the form which she suggests, will always render the build-ing the most…
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