The True And the Beautiful: in Nature, Art, Morals, And Religion
The True And the Beautiful: in Nature, Art, Morals, And Religion
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
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I remember well how, when a boy, I used to despise that •Campanile, and think it meanly smooth and finished. But I have since lived beside it many a day, and looked out upon it from my windows by sunlight and moonlight, and I shall not soon forget how profound and gloomy appeared to me the savageness of the Northern Gothic, when I afterwards stood, for the first time, beneath the front of Salisbury Cathedral. The contrast is indeed strange, if it could be quickly felt, between the rising of tho...se gray Uralls out of their quiet swarded space, like dark and barren rocks out of a green lake, with their rude, mouldering, rough-grained shafts, and triple lights, without tracery or other ornament than the martins' nests in the height of them, ^nd that bright, sm Doth, sunny surface of glow- 192 ARCHITECTURE. ing jasper, those spiral shafts and fairy traceries^ so white, so faint, so crystalline, that their slight shapes are hardly traced in darkness on the pal- lor of the Eastern sky, that serene height of mountain alabaster, colored like a morning cloud, and chased like a sea-shell.
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