 Watch an old building with an anxious care; guard it as best you may, and at any cost, from every influence of dilapidation. Count its stones as you would jewels of a crown ; set watches about it as if at the gates of a besieged city ; bind it together...  The Seven Lamps of Architecture - Seite 163von John Ruskin - 1874 - 186 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1849 - 538 Seiten
...anxious care ; guard it as best you may, and at any cost, from every influence of dilapidation. Count its stones as you would jewels of a crown ; set watches...continually, and many a generation will still be born and pass away beneath its shadow." — p. 181. This is well and eloquently said. We grieve to hear of old... | |
 | 1849 - 1052 Seiten
...anxious care ; guard it as best you may, and at any cost, from every influence of dilapidation. Count its stones as you would jewels of a crown ; set watches...unsightliness of the aid ; better a crutch than a lost limb;—and do this tenderly, and reverently, and continually, and many a generation will still be... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1866 - 456 Seiten
...anxious care ; guard it as best you nuy, and at any cost, from every influence of dilapidation. C>un( its stones as you would jewels of a crown ; set watches...aid ; better a crutch than a lost limb ; and do this tenderlv, and reverently, and continually, and many a generation will still be born and pass away beneath... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 Seiten
...anxicus care ; guard it as best you may, and at any cost, from every influence of dilapidation. Count its stones as you would jewels of a crown ; set watches...continually, and many a generation will still be born and pass away beneath its shadow. Its evil day must come at last ; but let it come declaredly and openly,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 470 Seiten
...at any cost, from every influence of dilapidation. Count its stones as you would jewels of a crows; set watches about it as if at the gates of a besieged...continually, and many a generation will still be born and pass away beneath its shadow. Its evil day must come at last ; but let it come declaredly and openly,... | |
 | Sir George Gilbert Scott - 1879 - 464 Seiten
...might, and at any cost, from the influence of dilapidation.' I would ' count its stones as you would the jewels of a crown ; set watches about it as if at...together with iron where it loosens ; stay it with timber when it declines,' or do anything and everything I could to preserve it from the influences of time... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1884 - 504 Seiten
...anxicus care ; guard it as best you may, and at any cost, from every influence of dilapidation. Count its stones as you would jewels of a Crown ; set watches...do this tenderly, and reverently, and continually, anil many a generation will still be born and pass away beneath its shadow. Its evil day must come... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 764 Seiten
...anxious care ; guard it as best you may, and at any cost from every influence of dilapidation. Count its stones as you would jewels of a crown ; set watches...continually, and many a generation will still be born and pass away beneath its shadow. Its evil day must come at last ; but let it come declaredly and openly,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 752 Seiten
...anxious care ; guard it as best you may, and at any cost from every influence of dilapidation. Count its stones as you would jewels of a crown ; set watches...lost limb ; and do this tenderly, and reverently, and COTItinually, and many a generation will still be born and pass away beneath its shadow. Its evil day... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1889 - 786 Seiten
...anxious care ; guard it as best jo\i may, and at any cost from every influence of dilapidation. Count its stones as you would jewels of a crown ; set watches...continually, and many a generation will still be born and pass away beneath its shadow. Its evil day must come at last ; but let it come declaredly and openly,... | |
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