Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 129
lions,those monstrous cen-taurs, those half-men, those spotted tigers, those fightingsoldiers, and horn-blowing hunters ? Thou seest manybodies under one head, and again many heads on onebody. Here is a serpents tail attached to a quad-ruped, there is a quadrupeds head on a fish. There abeast… … A HALF-MAN. Symbolism 99 reads with more pleasure what is carved in stonesthan what is written in books, and would rather gazeall day upon these creations than to meditate on thedivine word of God! It should be realised, however, that those objec-tionable and subtile symbols, recognised only by…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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