History of art . hey wouldnot become a part of the mighty dream of this people—whose will has all the power that dwells in the lines ofits towers, a people as resistant as their walls, thispeople whose soul, when it peers to its depths, is assteeped in fog and moonlight as they are themselves—they would not become a part of the dream ofEngland, I repeat, if a mantle of ivy did not coverthem from top to bottom, if blood did not filter betweentheir stones, and if the echo of falling axes were notheard when one traverses their black corridors, wherewandering specters brush by one in passing. The
History of art . hey wouldnot become a part of the mighty dream of this people—whose will has all the power that dwells in the lines ofits towers, a people as resistant as their walls, thispeople whose soul, when it peers to its depths, is assteeped in fog and moonlight as they are themselves—they would not become a part of the dream ofEngland, I repeat, if a mantle of ivy did not coverthem from top to bottom, if blood did not filter betweentheir stones, and if the echo of falling axes were notheard when one traverses their black corridors, wherewandering specters brush by one in passing. The soulof the north has not been able to define itself by thevisible lines of the world; and only poetry and musicare vague enough to receive it in their embrace. Ill The sea with its ebb and flow carries the thoughtfrom one shore to the other. England, which owed somuch to the Scandinavians, in its turn carried Anglo-Norman art to Norway, whereas Sweden, whitherEtienne Bonneuil had come with his companions from.
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