Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · Boston, Roberts brothers · leaf 136
he days of Saint Louis. Of all 1 The spire by Lassus is the fourth. The first, by Pierre de Monte-reau, became unsafe from old age ; the second was burnt in 1630; thethird was destroyed in the Great Revolution. ^ The woodcut is from a picture now at Versailles, painted by anartist named Martin in… … Notre Dame and the Sainte Chapelle, 79 the Gothic edifices I have ever visited, this one seems tome most pre-eminently a visible poem. It is hardly ofthis world, it hardly belongs to the dull realities of life.Most buildings are successful only in parts, so that wesay to ourselves, Ah, if all had…
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