. Switzerland as described by great writers . he founder of the city, leads from the court to thevestibule on the first floor, where a Lutheran painter hasdepicted, according to his idea, some scenes of the LastJudgment. A devil in yellow trousers, with a cocks headand a ducks feet, is throwing nuns, monks, a pope, and acourtesan into the flames ; while another, as green as afrog, is bringing a lectern on his shoulders, and above him,in all the glory of paradise, and under the eye of a figuremeant to represent the Eternal, rosy, chubby-cheeked angelssound the resurrection-trumpet. Religious di
. Switzerland as described by great writers . he founder of the city, leads from the court to thevestibule on the first floor, where a Lutheran painter hasdepicted, according to his idea, some scenes of the LastJudgment. A devil in yellow trousers, with a cocks headand a ducks feet, is throwing nuns, monks, a pope, and acourtesan into the flames ; while another, as green as afrog, is bringing a lectern on his shoulders, and above him,in all the glory of paradise, and under the eye of a figuremeant to represent the Eternal, rosy, chubby-cheeked angelssound the resurrection-trumpet. Religious disputes have always been carried on verykeenly in Switzerland, and have everywhere left deep andpermanent traces. When you go up from the Town Hall to the cathedral,you see how it has suffered in those times of strife,—howvolleys of stones have defaced and mutilated the saintsmutely praying under the arches of its three you quickly lose sight of these marks of violence inlooking at the building as a majestic whole, with its two. < BASLE 179 graceful towers terminating in spires carved in wavy lineslike a delicate piece of goldsmiths work, and showing thelight through innumerable openings, and the grand outlineof this huge red mass, thrown out from the deep blue of thesky like a mountain of porphyry hewn out by giants. This cathedral of Basle is, like its sister temples on thebanks of the Rhine, a truly magnificent building. It wasbegun in loio by the Emperor Henry II., and built afterthe Byzantine school. Three centuries and a half later itwas rebuilt in Gothic style. Proudly holding its place asthe sentinel of an older time, on the bank of the river thatflows at its feet, it looks right across the plain broken upinto meadows, fields, and forests, to the great embattledramparts of the High Alps, pencilled faintly afar on aturquoise sky. Close to the cathedral rise the graceful, tapering archesof an old cloister, where many, once full of eager, busy life,now lie
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