Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 572
contrast obtained by the absence of the pervade THE VILLA. 153 ing energy of the universal curvilinear character, and there-fore improper. 4thly. When the general energy, instead of pervading sim-ultaneously the multitude of objects, as with one spirit, isindependently possessed and manifested by… … Fig. 43. simple energy ; but in Fig. 43 that energy is separately mani-fested in each, and the result is painful monotony. Parallelright lines, without grouping, are always liable to this objec-tion ; and, therefore, a distant view of a flat country is neverbeautiful, unless its horizontals are…
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