The Cathedrals of England and Wales : their history, architecture, and associations ; with a series of Rembrandt plates and many illustrations in the text (1906)
London ; New York : Cassell · leaf 148
and rich in detail, wonderfully impressive aswe catch glimpses of it and its crowning of towers from the narrowstreets as they wind up the slopes below, or view it for the first timeas a whole from the Close at its foot, one nevertheless feels that it isopen to exception. The leading outlines,… … THE WEST DOORWAY. purpose in it as a wliolr ; it is too obvi-ously a gigantic screen ; and we cannothelp suspecting—though unjustly—that itis intended to mask defects in the build-ing which lies behind it. There can beno question that the effect of the towerswould have been far finer if they…
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