Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 466
s alsoroughly built, consisting of a roof of loose stones, sometimesone large flat slab, supported above the flue by four large sup-ports, each of a single stone. It is rather light in its appear-ance, and breaks the ridge of a roof very agreeably. Sepa-rately considered, it is badly proportioned ;… … 43 THE POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE. upper part is always dark, owing to the smoke, and tells agree*ably against any background seen through the hollow. Fig. 9 is the chimney of the Westmoreland cottage whichformed the subject of the last paper (p. 33). The good tastewhich prevailed in the rest of the…
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