... 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 227by John Ruskin - 1904Full view - About this book
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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*... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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