Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 488
pro-jection the villa is built: but the effect of this choice, whenthe building is considered the object, is to carry it exactlyinto the place where it ought to be, far from the precipice anddark mountain, to the border of the bending bay and citron- THE VILLA. 69 scented cape, where it stands at… … the scene are kept in the distance, and the villa itself is min-gled with graceful lines, and embosomed in rich vegetation.The promontory separates the Lake of Lecco from that ofComo, properly so called, and is three miles from the oppo- 70 THE POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE. site shore, which gives room…
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