United States or Mexico ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
But your worships chuse rather that I give you the length, breadth, and perpendicular height of the great parish-church, or drawing of the facade of the abbey of Saint Austreberte which has been transported from Artois hither every thing is just I suppose as the masons and carpenters left them, and if the belief in Christ continues so long, will be so these fifty years to come so your worships and reverences may all measure them at your leisures but he who measures thee, Janatone, must do it now thou carriest the principles of change within thy frame; and considering the chances of a transitory life, I would not answer for thee a moment; ere twice twelve months are passed and gone, thou mayest grow out like a pumpkin, and lose thy shapes or thou mayest go off like a flower, and lose thy beauty nay, thou mayest go off like a hussy and lose thyself.
It would have occupied a painstaking county historian a whole afternoon to take rubbings of the numerous effigies and heraldic devices graven to their memory on the brasses, tablets, and altar-tombs in the aisle of the parish-church. The Duke himself, however, was a man little attracted by ancient chronicles in stone and metal, even when they concerned his own beginnings.
To-day, as early as you please, and at all events before doing anything else, let us go to Giotto's own parish-church, Santa Maria Novella. If, walking from the Strozzi Palace, you look on your right for the "Way of the Beautiful Ladies," it will take you quickly there. Do not let anything in the way of acquaintance, sacristan, or chance sight, stop you in doing what I tell you.
Word Of The Day