Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 524
-leigh House, will probably occur to the mind of the architect, as goodexamples of the varieties of this mixed style. THE VILLA. 105 in its prevailing forms, awakening no elevated ideas, assum-ing no nobility of form. It has none of the pride, or the graceof beauty, none of the dignity of delight,… … Fig. 37. inhabitant: not noble in its taste, not haughty in its recrea-tion, not pure in its perception of beauty ; but domestic inits pleasures, fond of matter of fact rather than of imagina-tion, yet sparkling occasionally with odd wit and grotesqueassociation. The Italian obtains his beauty, as…
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