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Тридцатитомное собрание сочинений выдающегося английского эстетического мыслителя Джона Рёскина (тома 7-10 не выходили), ключевой фигуры "викторианской эпохи" в истории Великобритании.

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I Swiss cottage, must now take notice of its effect in scenery. 42. When one has been wandering for a whole morning through a valley of perfect silence, where everything around, which is motionless, is colossal, and everything which has where the strength and the glory of nature upon and where, in the midst of mightiness which motion, resistless ; are principally developed in the very forces which feed her majesty seems imperishable, ; of desolation; one that all indeed eternal is is the influence apt to be surprised, and by no means is agreeably, to find, crouched behind some projecting rock, a piece of architecture which is weak the midst of wildness, neat in the extreme, though in in the midst of strength, con- There temptible in the midst of immensity.

16. Again, every bit of cultivated ground in England has a finished neatness; the fields are all divided by hedges or fences the fruit trees are neatly pruned the roads beautifully made, etc. Everything is the reverse in France the fields are distinguished by the nature of the crops they ; ; : [* Compare with this chapter, Modern Painters, vol. iv. chap. ] THE COTTAGE ENGLAND AND FEANCE. 11 bear; the fruit trees are overgrown with moss and mistletoe; and the roads immeasurably wide, and miserably made.

Early sketch more pleasing because visionary ; and, while the pitying the actual humility of the present building. THE POETEY OF AKCHITECTUEE. 14 mind is admiring mark of dilapidation the the imagined pride of the past. Every increases this feeling; while these very marks (the fractures of the stone, the lichens of the moldering walls, and the graceful lines of the sinking roof) are all delightful in themselves. 21. Thus, is we have shown pretty from its that, while the English cottage propriety, the French cottage, having the same connection with its climate, country, and people, pro- duces such a contrast of feeling as bestows on addressing itself to the mind, and good taste.

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