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The laws of Fesole ; also, A joy forever ; Our fathers have told us ; Inaugural address ; Modern painters (1800)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Joy forever, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Our fathers have told us, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Inaugural address, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Modern painters · Boston : Aldine Book Pub. · leaf 442

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370 RESULTING FORMS. conditions of broken-summited rock, which had previ- ously been the only ones known. And if we now look back to his treatment of the crest of Mont Pilate, in the figure given at the close of the last chapter, we shall understand better the nature and strength of the in- … stinct which compelled him to sacrifice the peaked sum- mit, and to bring the whole mountain within a lower en- closing' line. In that figure, however, the dotted peak interferes with the perception of the form finally deter- mined upon, which therefore I repeat here (Fig. 106), as Turner gave it…

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