tliere is but one point more to be examined,and we have done. Foliation, while it is the most distinctive and peculiar, is also theeasiest method of decoration which Gothic architecture possesses ;and, although in the disposition of the proportions and forms offoils, the most noble imagination may… … foolish foliation. Throw any number of crossinglines together at random, as inFig. XIX., and fill all theirsquares and oblong openings with^. quatrefoils and cinquefoils, andyou will immediately have whatwill stand, with most people, forvery satisfactory Gothic. Theslightest possible…
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