Medieval architecture; its origins and development : with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York : Baker and Taylor Co. · leaf 357
ardin whose worksare such literal imitations of the classics that thev have beenmistaken for ancient fragments. Seek a poet, you will findhim not; the hexameter and pentameter are forgotten; shortlyrics, now pious, now obscene, are the only metrical composi-tions that this age produced. Theologians… … S3 - > u DECLINE OE THE CHURCH time; the idealistic conceptions of the preceding century are nolonger taken seriously, or are even ridiculed. The XII century had seemed to despair of reason; neverhad mystics, scorners of science and scientific inquiry, been morenumerous than when the theological…
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