The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 466
s—attained to a majesty of height and a grandeur of form trulyextraordinary. If the Norman church expresses with gentle severity, and the Gothic ARCHITECTURE. 399 church with sumptuous fancy, the important and sublime doctrines of theGrospel, we must equally allow that the castle, in some sort,… … Fig. 317.—The Castle of Coucy in its ancient state.(From a Miniature taken from a Manuscript of the Thirteenth Century.) a sort of eloquent boldness that the towers and the donjons shoot into theair, succeed each other at intervals, command and support each other. Itis frequently not without a sort…
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