The stones of Venice : [With appendices, additional notes, and "Venetian index."] (1894)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes & Lauriat · leaf 249
kaleido-scope, and to produce a building which the present Europeanpublic will think magnificent, though there may not be, fromfoundation to coping, one ray of invention, or any other intel-lectual merit, in the whole mass of it. But floral decoration, andthe disposition of mouldings, require some… … Fia. XIX. THE NATUHE of OOIHIC. 223 tion . and although, as I have just said, the noblest imagina-tion may be shown in the dispositions of traceries, there is farmore room for its play and power when those traceries areassociated with floral or animal ornament; and it is probable,d priori, that,…
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