The Seven Lamps of ArchitectureC. E. Merrill & Company, 1890 - 401 |
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... , is due . The services which Mr. Ruskin has rendered to his generation are many and various . They are the services of a man of genius , inspired by intense moral sentiment , and a consequent desire to vi INTRODUCTION .
... , is due . The services which Mr. Ruskin has rendered to his generation are many and various . They are the services of a man of genius , inspired by intense moral sentiment , and a consequent desire to vi INTRODUCTION .
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John Ruskin. by intense moral sentiment , and a consequent desire to use his gifts for the benefit of his fellow - men . His literary ambitions have been subordinate to his wish to do good . It is impossible to estimate his services by ...
John Ruskin. by intense moral sentiment , and a consequent desire to use his gifts for the benefit of his fellow - men . His literary ambitions have been subordinate to his wish to do good . It is impossible to estimate his services by ...
Strona ix
... desire for the truth , and so pure and generous his spirit , that such faults as these could easily be condoned . The present volume is , so far as I know , the first treatise in English to teach the real significance of Architecture as ...
... desire for the truth , and so pure and generous his spirit , that such faults as these could easily be condoned . The present volume is , so far as I know , the first treatise in English to teach the real significance of Architecture as ...
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... desires to understand the meaning of the monuments in which past generations have embodied their moral his- tory , for the delight , the instruction , and the service of their successors . C. E. N. CAMBRIDGE , MASSACHUSETTS . October ...
... desires to understand the meaning of the monuments in which past generations have embodied their moral his- tory , for the delight , the instruction , and the service of their successors . C. E. N. CAMBRIDGE , MASSACHUSETTS . October ...
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... desires to produce the largest results at the least cost . Of this feeling , then , there are two distinct forms the first , the wish to exercise self - denial for ... desire to honour or please some one else by 18 THE LAMP OF SACRIFICE .
... desires to produce the largest results at the least cost . Of this feeling , then , there are two distinct forms the first , the wish to exercise self - denial for ... desire to honour or please some one else by 18 THE LAMP OF SACRIFICE .
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Strona 400 - 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...
Strona 358 - 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.
Strona 318 - For we are not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. We have certain work to do for our bread, and that is to be done strenuously ; other work to do for our delight, and that is to be done heartily: neither is to be done by halves and shifts, but with a will : and what is not worth this effort is not to be done at all.
Strona 399 - YE clouds ! that far above me float and pause, Whose pathless march no mortal may control ! Ye ocean-waves ! that, wheresoe'er ye roll, Yield homage only to eternal laws ! Ye woods ! that listen to the night-birds...
Strona 216 - 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...
Strona 340 - ... it is in that golden stain of time that we are to look for the real light and colour and preciousness of architecture...
Strona 16 - ... being architectural ; neither can there be any architecture which is not based on building, nor any good architecture which is not based on good building ; but it is perfectly easy, and very necessary, to keep the ideas distinct, and to understand fully that Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.
Strona 8 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
Strona 331 - I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, 'and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be, within and without...