. Paris as seen and described by famous writers ... building, with a semi-dome covering the northernend over the altar, and a circular vault covering thevestibule. Galignanis guide-book (one of the best, mostlearned, and most amusing books of the kind that havebeen published) will give you a full account of the place,as of all others that sightseers frequent. It is as fine,certainly, as fine can be in its details, and vast and liberalin its proportions. Well, fancy a beautiful, gorgeous, ele-gant Brobdignac cafe^ or banqueting room, and the Made-leine will answer completely. It does not seem t
. Paris as seen and described by famous writers ... building, with a semi-dome covering the northernend over the altar, and a circular vault covering thevestibule. Galignanis guide-book (one of the best, mostlearned, and most amusing books of the kind that havebeen published) will give you a full account of the place,as of all others that sightseers frequent. It is as fine,certainly, as fine can be in its details, and vast and liberalin its proportions. Well, fancy a beautiful, gorgeous, ele-gant Brobdignac cafe^ or banqueting room, and the Made-leine will answer completely. It does not seem to containa single spark of religion—no edifice built in the Greekfashion ever did. Why should we be prejudiced in favourof the Gothic ? Why should pointed arches, and tallsteeples, and grey buttresses, built crosswise, seem to ex-press—to be, as it were, the translation into architecture ofour religion ? Is it true, or is it only an association ofideas ? You, who have been born since Gothic architec-ture was dead, can best answer the query. 3H.
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