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" ... plagiarists of its architects, slaves of its workmen, and Sybarites of its inhabitants ; an architecture in which intellect is idle, invention impossible, but in which all luxury is gratified, and all insolence fortified... "
The Works of John Ruskin - Page 227
by John Ruskin - 1904
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Routledge's Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park at Sydenham ...

Edward MacDermott - 1854 - 236 pages
...the good and living things that were springmg around it iu their youth — an architecture fit only to make plagiarists of its architects, slaves of its...dust of it from our feet for ever. Whatever has any connection with the five orders, or with any of the orders — whatever is Doric, or Ionic, or Tuscan,...
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The ten chief courts of the Sydenham palace

Crystal palace - 1854 - 250 pages
...towers of it, is said to have filled his failing veins with the blood of children ; an architecture, invented as it seems, to make plagiarists of its architects,...gratified, and all insolence fortified. The first thing that we have to do is to cast it out, and shake the dust of it from our feet for ever ; whatever has...
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Daedalus: Or, The Causes and Principles of the Excellence of Greek Sculpture

Edward Falkener - 1860 - 408 pages
...dying and desperate king, who had rilled his failing veins with the blood of children ; an architecture invented, as it seems, to make plagiarists of its...insolence fortified ; — the first thing we have to do is to C a. VIA, mtC &*iut tfce mac <rnt w.ii to* t»t vroen. «r Itoue *jr TOKO wfaotrrer tioan a*...
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The Works of John Ruskin: The stones of Venice, v. 1-3

John Ruskin - 1887 - 644 pages
...towers of it, is said to have filled his failing veins with the blood of children ;* an architecture invented, as it seems, to make plagiarists of its...for ever. "Whatever has any connexion with the five orders, or with any one of the orders,—whatever is Doric, or Ionic, or Tuscan, or Corinthian, or...
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Works, Volume 11

John Ruskin - 1887 - 696 pages
...is said to have filled his failing veins with the blood of children ;* an architecture invented,«as it seems, to make plagiarists of its architects, slaves...for ever. Whatever has any connexion with the five orders, or with any one of the orders, — whatever is Doric, or Ionic, or Tuscan, or Corinthian, or...
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Stones of Venice

John Ruskin - 1894 - 448 pages
...among the people that VOL. III. -13 as it seems, to make plagiarists of its architects, slaves of ita workmen, and Sybarites of its inhabitants ; an architecture...for ever. Whatever has any connexion with the five orders, or with any one of the orders, — whatever is Doric, or Ionic, or Tuscan, or Corinthian, or...
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The Works of John Ruskin: The stones of Venice

John Ruskin - 1904 - 495 pages
...towers of it, is said to have filled his failing veins with the blood of children;* an architecture invented, as it seems, to make plagiarists of its...impossible, but in which all luxury is gratified, and aU insolence fortified; — the first thing we have to do is to cast it out, and shake the dust of...
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The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste

Geoffrey Scott - 1914 - 292 pages
...Pagan in its origin, proud and unholy in its revival, paralysed in its old age ... an architecture invented as it seems to make plagiarists of its architects,...dust of it from our feet for ever. Whatever has any connection with the five orders, or with any one of the orders ; whatever is Doric or Ionic or Corinthian...
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The Pleasures of Architecture

Clough Williams-Ellis, Amabel Williams-Ellis - 1924 - 298 pages
...its 1 He identifies this with the Guilloche. revival, paralysed in its old age ... an architecture invented as it seems to make plagiarists of its architects,...luxury is gratified and all insolence fortified.' In the lordly rumpus what wonder that there were none to ask if it could be of innocent stone and brick...
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Catholic World, Volume 127

1928 - 840 pages
...uncnjoyable, and impious. Pagan in its origin, proud and unholy in its revival, paralyzed in its old age ... an architecture in which intellect is idle, invention...impossible, but in which all luxury is gratified and insolence fortified."1 And as Mr. Geoffrey Scott acutely adds, "the Roman architecture stood for the...
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