 I believe, as regards architecture, few men have been so unfortunate as myself. I have passed my life in thinking of fine things, studying fine things, designing fine things, and realising very poor ones.  The Ecclesiologist - Page 3971801Full view - About this book
 | 1850 - 524 pages
...words, and we believe his predicament is that of many a gifted member of his noble profession : — " I believe, as regards architecture, few men have been so unfortunate as myself. \ have passed my life in thinking of fine tilings, studying fine things, designing fine tilings, and... | |
 | John Ruskin - Architecture - 1851 - 484 pages
...conceivable architects ; and that by his own account and setting forth of himself. Hear him : — " I believe, as regards architecture, few men have been...things, studying fine things, designing fine things, and realising very poor ones. I have never had the chance of producing a single fine ecclesiastical building,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Architecture - 1851 - 520 pages
...conceivable architects ; and that by his own account and setting forth of himself. Hear him : — " I believe, as regards architecture, few men have been so unfortunate as myself. 1 have passed my life in thinking of fine tilings, studying fine things, designing fine things, and... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 702 pages
...conceivable architects ; and that -by his own account and setting forth of himself. Hear him : — " I believe, as regards architecture, few men have been...things, studying fine things, designing fine things, and realising very poor ones. I have never had the chance of producing a single fine ecclesiastical building,... | |
 | John Ruskin - English literature - 1894 - 512 pages
...or conceivable architects ; and that by his own account and setting forth of himself. Hear him : — "I believe, as regards architecture, few men have...studying fine things ; designing fine things, and realising very poor ones. I have never had the chance of producing a single fine ecclesiastical building,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 664 pages
...or conceivable architects : and that by his own account and setting forth of himself. Hear him : " I believe, as regards architecture, few men have been...things, studying fine things, designing fine things, and realising very poor ones. I have never had the chance of producing a single fine ecclesiastical building,... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - Great Britain - 1904 - 1038 pages
...one must, the implicit admission of some weakness to which his failure as an artist was partly due. "I believe, as regards architecture, few men have...myself. I have passed my life in thinking of fine tilings, studying fine things, designing fine things, and realising very poor ones. I have never had... | |
 | Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Megan Aldrich, Megan Brewster Aldrich, Paul Atterbury, Barry Bergdoll, Margaret H. Floyd, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts - Architecture - 1995 - 424 pages
...been a failure. His disillusion and despair are apparent in letters and other writings of the period: "I believe, as regards architecture, few men have...things, studying fine things, designing fine things, and realising very poor ones."'8 Despite his pessimism, Pugin's last years were actually marked by a great... | |
 | Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Augustus Welby Pugin - Architecture - 2004 - 272 pages
...through a paint pot and then up the plaster' (p. 11). This self-abasement culminates with the claim 'I believe, as regards architecture, few men have...things, studying fine things, designing fine things, and realising very poor ones' (p. 11), citing Southwark, Nottingham (surprisingly), St John's, Kirkham,... | |
 | English literature - 1928 - 728 pages
...does he appear for his words, " I have passed my life " (he died at the age of forty) " in thinking fine things, studying fine things, designing fine things and realizing very poor ones." We recognize too well the truth of that last sigh. Besides Pugin, Mr. Clark takes Ruskin and Sir Gilbert... | |
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