History of art . ? 4 < i \i Û Ï t ?. Alsace (xii and xiii Centuries). Strassburg Cathedral. 356 MEDIEVAL ART and the close-set latticed tracery of stone the spectral, aerial, and vague poetry of the Eng-lish people to have its full effect in these icy and mag-nificent monuments, one should see them under ablue veil of moonlight or see the sharp spires rising outof the wet leaves and the mist. The art of the northdemands the complicity of the vapor that spreadsthrough space, of the foliage, of the sleeping water,and the uncertain illumination of the night. Therectangular mano
History of art . ? 4 < i \i Û Ï t ?. Alsace (xii and xiii Centuries). Strassburg Cathedral. 356 MEDIEVAL ART and the close-set latticed tracery of stone the spectral, aerial, and vague poetry of the Eng-lish people to have its full effect in these icy and mag-nificent monuments, one should see them under ablue veil of moonlight or see the sharp spires rising outof the wet leaves and the mist. The art of the northdemands the complicity of the vapor that spreadsthrough space, of the foliage, of the sleeping water,and the uncertain illumination of the night. Therectangular manor houses lift up above the lakes theformidable profile of their polygonal towers, and as weview them we feel their whole bulk, and yet some-thing more than their bulk, weighing upon the sinisterhistory of the Middle Ages in England. They 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 peer
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