him still inmerry mood about Dorothys promise. And he setbefore him the basket of celestial fruit and flowers,saying, Dorothea sends thee these, and so vanished.And thereupon Theophilus was struck with wonderand became converted, and presently sealed his faithwith his blood. Gothic painters were… … ft W Q PS < O > THE RISE OF PAINTING IN THE NORTH. 47 fancy. He took the old symbols and made playthingsof them. Dorothy, in the garden of Paradise, doesnot merely hold her basket as a symbol ; it becomesthe toy of the celestial Babe. The old dignity is thusindeed destroyed, but a new and…
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