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The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)

Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 368

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, tlie important and sublime (hjctrines of tlieGospel, we must e(iually allow that the castle, in some sort, loudly proclaimsthe stern and uncivilised notions of (lie leiidal aullioiiu of which it was atonce the instrununl and the symbol. Placed, in most cases, on natural or artificial eminences,… … V\^. 2G8.—Tiic Castle ol Coucy in its ancient slate.(From a Miniature taken from a Manuscrii>t of the Thirteenth Century.) a sort of eloquent boldness that the towers and donjons .--hoot into theair, succeed each other at intervals, command and support each other. Itis frequenth^ not without a…

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