Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 116
sections. The plain double shaft, however, is byfar the most frequent, both in the Northern and SoutliernGothic, but for the most part early ; it is very frequent incloisters, and in the singular one of St. Michaels Mount, Nor- • T have not been at the pains to draw tlie complicated ]>iers in… … PLATK II.—Pl.AX6i OF PlEKS. THE SUAFT. 109 mandy, a small pseudo-arcade runs along between the pairs ofshafts, a miniature aisle. The gioup is emploj-ed on a mag-iiiticent scale, but ill proportioned, for the main piers of theapse of the cathedral of Goutauces, its jDurpose being to con<ceal one…
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