 Undefined in its slope of roof, height of shaft, breadth of arch, or disposition of ground plan, it can shrink into a turret, expand into a hall, coil into a staircase, or spring into a spire, with undegraded grace and unexhausted energy...  Ornamental Drawing, and Architectural Design: With Notes, Historical and ... - Página 95de Robert Scott Burn - 1857 - 124 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Henry Allon - 1853 - 628 páginas
...Undefined in its slope of roof, height of shaft, ' hreadth of arch, or disposition of ground-plan, it can shrink into ' a turret, expand into a hall, coil into a staircase, or spring into ' a spire, with undegradcd grace, and unexhausted energy : suhtle ' and flexible, like a fiery serpent, hut ever attentive... | |
 | Ecclesiological society - 1853 - 942 páginas
...Undefined in its slope of roof, height of shaft, breadth of arch, or disposition of ground plan, it can shrink into a turret, expand into a hall, coil into...purpose, it submits to it without the slightest sense of lots either to its unity or majesty,—subtle and flexible like a fiery serpent, but ever attentive... | |
 | 1853 - 512 páginas
...end of art is misunderstood. We marked a good passage in the section on the Ch ingefulness of Gothic. its form or purpose. it submits to it without the...majesty, — subtle and flexible like a fiery serpent, bnt erer attentive to the voice of the charmer. And it is one of the chief virtues of the Gothic builders,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1854 - 104 páginas
...Undefined in its slope of roof, height of shaft, breadth of arch, or disposition of ground plan, it can shrink into a turret, expand into a hall, coil into...serpent, but ever attentive to the voice of the charmer. And it is one of the chief virtues of the Gothic builders, that they never suffered ideas of outside... | |
 | Crystal palace - 1854 - 250 páginas
...the old masters learnt to avoid distortion. " Gothic architecture being .undefined," says Mr. Ruskin, "can either shrink into a turret, expand into a hall,...the slightest sense of loss, either to its unity or majesty—subtle and flexible like a fiery serpent, but ever attentive to the voice of the charmer."... | |
 | Sir George Gilbert Scott - 1857 - 330 páginas
...Undefined in the slope of its roof, height of shaft, breadth of arch, or disposition of ground-plan, it can shrink into a turret, expand into a hall, coil into...energy ; and whenever it finds occasion for change in form or purpose, it submits to it without the slightest sense of loss, either in its unity or majesty,... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 páginas
...Undefined in its slope of roof, height of shaft, breadth of arch, or disposition of ground plan, it can shrink into a turret, expand into a hall, coil into...serpent, but ever attentive to the voice of the charmer. And it is one of the chief virtues of the Gothic builders, that they never suffered ideas of outside... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 páginas
...Undefined iu its slope of roof, height of shaft, breadth of arch, or disposition of ground plan, it can shrink into a turret, expand into a hall, coil into...the slightest sense of loss either to its unity or majesty,—subtle and flexible like a fiery serpent, but ever attentive to the voice of the charmer.... | |
 | 1860 - 966 páginas
...testimony to the exhaustless riches of that style which can " expand into a hall or shrink iuto a turret, coil into a staircase or spring into a spire, with undegraded grace and unexhausted energy : subtle, flexible, like a fiery serpent, but ever attentive to the voice of the charmer." Many had... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1867 - 458 páginas
...Undefined in its slope of roof, height of shaft, breadth of arch, or disposition of ground plan, it can shrink into a turret, expand into a hall, coil into...serpent, but ever attentive to the voice of the charmer. And it is one of the chief virtues of the Gothic builders, that they never suffered ideas of outside... | |
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