Prior, Edward S. (Edward Schröder), 1852-1932 · London : G. Bell and Sons · leaf 100
the distinct-ness of which everything issacrificed. In the Englishcathedral there is the mysteryof a series of chambersnever completely seen to-gether, broken by screensand lengthenino- themselvesto further recesses. Neces-sary to the French conceptionwas the over-vaulted vast-ness of its unity,… … THE FRENCH CATHEDRAL, AMIENS. 82 GOTHIC ART To outside view the French cathedral has the air of a revolution—the erupted mass of a gigantic effort: but the English takes the look moreof a constitutional development, a chain of precedents—not a volcano,but a water-worn down shaped through long years…
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