 | Henry Allon - 1853 - 628 pages
...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,... | |
 | Ecclesiological society - 1853 - 942 pages
...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; and whenever it finds occasion for change in... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1854 - 104 pages
...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 ; and whenever it finds occasion for change in... | |
 | Crystal palace - 1854 - 250 pages
...masters learnt to avoid distortion. " Gothic architecture being .undefined," says Mr. Ruskin, "can either shrink into a turret, expand into a hall, coil into a staircase, or spring into a spire, with undegraded grace and unexhausted energy; and whenever it finds occasion for change in... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - Advertising - 1857 - 138 pages
...the proportions resultant from its grouping. * * * Gothic architecture being undefined, can either shrink into a turret, expand into a hall, coil into a staircase, or spring into a spire, with undegraded grace and unexhausted energy ; and whenever it finds occasion for change in... | |
 | Sir George Gilbert Scott - Architecture - 1857 - 330 pages
...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 a staircase, or spring into a spire with undegraded grace and unexhausted energy ; and whenever it finds occasion for change in... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...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 ; and whenever it finds occasion for change in... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1867 - 458 pages
...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 ; and whenever it finds occasion for change in... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...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 ; and whenever it finds occasion for change in... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 500 pages
...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 ; and whenever it finds occasion for change in... | |
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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... 
