flamboyant tracery, turned upside down, form akind of leaf-tracery. Our countrymen, however, adopted a method which wasless conducive to the aspiring expression, and which con-ducted them to a style less rich and certainly less variedthan any of the other After-Gothics.Erroneously supposing that an… … 250 HISTORY AND RUDIMENTS or shaft lets, thus converting what had been blank arcadesiuto mere panels, aud then to multiply, diminish, and extendthese panels and endless repetition of vertical lines, overevery part of the interior, and, in florid buildings, even ofthe exterior. But the Perpendicular…
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