The Works of John Ruskin, Band 8G. Allen, 1903 |
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admiration aphorism Appendix arcade arches archi architect arrangement bas-reliefs beauty black-letter Brantwood builders building capital carved cathedral cathedral of Pisa Chambéry Chapel character church colour columns Coutances dark deception decoration delight diary Doge's palace edition expression feeling flamboyant Florence Giotto given Gothic Gothic architecture grace Greek height honour human imitation instance John Ruskin kind King's College Chapel labour Lamps of Architecture laws Lectures less letter light lines look marble masses means mind Modern Painters mouldings natural never niches noble ornament painting Palace Palazzo Foscari passage pediment perfect perhaps pillars pinnacles Plate Poetry of Architecture portion preface present principle proportion quatrefoils reader reference Romanesque Rouen Ruskin sculpture seen sense Seven Lamps shade shadow shafts square Stones of Venice style sublimity surface things thought tion tower tracery truth volume wall whole
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Seite 212 - We have no right whatever to touch them. They are not ours. They belong partly to those who built them, and partly to all the generations of mankind who are to follow us.
Seite 198 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Seite 164 - Salisbury. The contrast is indeed strange, if it could be quickly felt, between the rising of those grey walls out of their quiet swarded space, like dark and barren rocks out of a green lake, with their rude, mouldering, rough-grained shafts, and triple lights, without tracery or other ornament than the martins' nests in the height of them, and that bright, smooth, sunny surface of glowing jasper, those spiral shafts and fairy traceries, so white, so faint, so crystalline, that their slight shapes...
Seite 33 - And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price : neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing.
Seite 229 - Ye woods! that listen to the night-birds' singing, Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging, Have made a solemn music of the wind! Where, like a man beloved of God, Through glooms, which never woodman trod...
Seite 229 - Bear witness for me, wheresoe'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.
Seite 203 - God has lent us the earth for our life ; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come...
Seite 197 - ... in order more strictly to arrive at the sources of its impressiveness, to imagine it, for a moment, a scene in some aboriginal forest of the New Continent. The flowers in an instant lost their light, the river its music...
Seite 230 - Slight those who say amidst their sickly healths, Thou livest by rule. What doth not so but man \ Houses are built by rule, and commonwealths. Entice the trusty sun, if that you can, From his Ecliptic line ; beckon the sky. Who lives by rule, then, keeps good company. Who keeps no guard upon himself, is slack, And rots to nothing at the next great thaw. Man is a shop of rules, a well-truss'd pack, Whose every parcel underwrites a law. Lose not thyself, nor give thy humours way : God gave them to...
Seite 135 - 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. 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 ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel. Do not thrash with sculptured flails : nor put bas-reliefs...