 | 1801 - 466 pages
...subject of architectural ornament is discussed under three heads. Mr. Ruskin lays down this principle : " Wherever you can rest, there decorate; where rest is forbidden, so is beauty (p. 109) ; and defends it with great spirit and ingenuity. Here again, however, we think he exaggerates,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1849 - 306 pages
...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.... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 pages
...a law of 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.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1866 - 456 pages
...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.... | |
 | Edward Lacy Garbett - 1867 - 276 pages
...carefully limited to one meaning. Thus a late writer on architecture lays this down as " a principle oi _, simple common sense. Wherever you can rest, there...observation of nature fail in discovering that beauty is forPREFACE. V bidden anywhere, or in any circumstances; but when we learn that this word, as used by... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...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.... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1872 - 500 pages
...a law of 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.... | |
 | Henry J. Fox - 1876 - 476 pages
...a law of 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 ornaments with business, any more than you may mix play. Work first, and then rest.... | |
 | Henry J. Fox - 1876 - 478 pages
...a law of 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 ornaments with business, any more than you may mix play. Work first, and then rest.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 764 pages
...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.... | |
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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... 
