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In the pediment is the usual representation of the Resurrection and Last Judgment. In the third story, a gable-end. Singular tower to the left, with an additional round turret, a relic of the earlier Gothic building. The interior is the most singular, and in some ways the most picturesque, in Paris a Gothic church, tricked out in Renaissance finery.
They swung and threaded swiftly, in shifting arabesque, in Gothic traceries, in lace-like fantasies; utterly bizarre, unutterably beautiful crystalline, geometric always. Abruptly their movement ceased so abruptly that the stoppage of all the ordered turmoil had the quality of appalling silence. An unimaginable tapestry bedight with incredible broidery, the Metal People draped the vast cup.
Walter Huntington Blake perceived, besides the hair like dripping honey, deep blue eyes the blue not of a turquoise but of a sapphire and an oval face a little too narrow in the jaw, so that the chin pointed a delicate Gothic arch. He noted a good forehead, which inclined him to the belief that she "did" something some subtle addition which he could not formulate confirmed that observation.
Caunipoor is a strong military station, with four handsome barracks; there is also an important missionary society. The town possesses some handsome schools and private buildings, and a Christian church, in pure Gothic style. 12th January. Towards noon, we reached the small village of Beura.
There are bits of Gothic sculpture that are more valuable expressions of human feeling than anything produced by the contemporaries of Buonarroti. Even in times of decadence a great artist has created finer things than could be accomplished by a mediocre talent of the great epochs, and the world could ill spare the Victory of Samothrace or the portrait busts of Houdon.
This court, upon which the sun of the forenoon now pours its white fire, is an enclosure severely and magnificently Arab; it has isolated us suddenly from time and things; it must lend to the Moslem prayer what formerly our Gothic churches lent to the Christian.
Not to track them too closely, we next find the wanderers entering a Gothic edifice of gray stone, where the bygone world has left whatever it deemed worthy of record, in the rich library of Harvard University. No student ever yet enjoyed such solitude and silence as now broods within its deep alcoves. Little do the present visitors understand what opportunities are thrown away upon them.
The northern Gothic church is like a body with several members; the southern Gothic church is an accretion of beautiful atoms. The northern Gothic style corresponds to the national unity of federalised races, organised by a social hierarchy of mutually dependent classes.
If a human one, it can compel no obedience, and has no power to prevent wrong. A king only can reign; a person, that is to say, who, conscious of natural law, enforces human law so far as it is just. Kinghood is equally necessary in Greek dynasty, and in Gothic.
He refused to trust the faith of the Romans, unless Ætius and Jason, the sons of two great officers of state, were sent as hostages to his camp; but he offered to deliver, in exchange, several of the noblest youths of the Gothic nation. The modesty of Alaric was interpreted, by the ministers of Ravenna, as a sure evidence of his weakness and fear.
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