 | 1801 - 466 Seiten
...subject of architectural ornament is discussed under three heads. Mr. Ruskin lays down this principle : " Wherever you can rest, there decorate; where rest is forbidden, so is beauty (p. 109) ; and defends it with great spirit and ingenuity. Here again, however, we think he exaggerates,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 Seiten
...This every day's observation attests. On this point our author advances the following as law — ' not to decorate things belonging to purposes of active and occupied life.' Wherever we can rest, he would allow us to decorate, but where rest is forbidden us he insists that beauty is... | |
 | 1850 - 676 Seiten
...This every day's observation attests. On this point our author advances the following as law — ' not to decorate things belonging to purposes of active and occupied life.' Wherever we can rest, he would allow us to decorate, but where rest is forbidden us he insists that beauty is... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1849 - 306 Seiten
...will revive. XIX. Hence then a general law, of singular importance in the present day, a law of simple common sense, — not to decorate things belonging...sculptured flails : nor put bas-reliefs on millstones. What ! it will be asked, are we in the habit of doing so ? Even so ; always and everywhere. The most... | |
 | 1850 - 580 Seiten
...than just. " Hence, then, a general law of singular importance in the present day, a law of simple common sense- — not to decorate things belonging...of active and occupied life. Wherever you can rest, then decorate ; where rest is forbidden, so is beauty. You must not mix ornament with business, any... | |
 | 1850 - 652 Seiten
...belonging to purposes of active and occupied life. Wherever you can rest, then dei-orate ; where rost is forbidden, so is beauty. You must not mix ornament with business, any more than you mix play ; work first and then rest, work first and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares nor... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1857 - 234 Seiten
...of singular importance in the present day, a law of simple common sense, — not to decorate thingg_ belonging to purposes of active and occupied life....sculptured flails : nor put bas-reliefs on millstones. What ! it will be asked, are we in the habit of doing so ? Even so ; always and everywhere. The most... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 496 Seiten
...arc counted, orderly, and architectural ; but they are naturally, and therefore beantifully"placed. What is the right place for architectural ornament...ornament with business, any more than you may mix play. Wfcrk first, and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 Seiten
...expression will be ineffective at the time, and will have its sharpness and clearness destroyed for ever. 1 Apply this to expressions of thought received by the...beauty. You must not mix ornament with business, any more~than you may mix play. Work first, and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 240 Seiten
...then a general law, of singular importance in the present day, a law of simple common sense,—not to decorate things belonging to purposes of active...decorate; where rest is forbidden, so is beauty. You \J must not mix ornament with business, any more than you may mix play. Work first, and then rest.... | |
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Hence then a general law, of singular importance in the present day, a law of simple common sense, — not to decorate things belonging to purposes of active and occupied life. Wherever you can rest, there decorate ; where rest is forbidden, so is beauty.... 
