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                                                                      		is of the exquisitely neat masonry and perfect
                                                                      		feeling here;  a style of Gothic formed by a combination
                                                                      		of Lombard surface ornament with Pisan Gothic:  than which
                                                                      		nothing can possibly be more chaste, pure, or solemn:)
                                                                      		and even when they take the Renaissance infection, they
                                                                      		strike out a style not indeed good - but with a Love
                                                                      		and nationality in it, of which the Palladio and Sansovino
                                                                      		houses are as void as they are of real beauty.
                                                                      Vicenza.	I was much struck to-day by the house I drew long ago;
                                                                      		a memorandum of its massy C3 window on p 59 N. book
                                                                      		note the shafts unusually thick;  and the two flower
                                                                      		plinths as luxuriant as the latest Venetian, but far
                                                                      		sharper and more thistly - only a little pastelike doughy
                                                                      		in the roll of its their upper lobes - their only fault -
                                                                      		They run along the whole house, and lap over the great
                                                                      		pillars of the finestrato, like waves meeting round
                                                                      		a rock   There is a lovely expression of overflowing life
                                                                      		in this:  the Venetian plinths all stop short on the shaft
                                                                      		but this rolls on leaf beyond leaf till it laps round:
                                                                      		The lower leaf plinth carries the great shaft bases, and
                                                                      		forms bases of square projecting balconies.  now the great
                                                                      		shaft base of the usual raised leaf pattern are carried
                                                                      		along in a great plinth under the finestrata balconies,
                                                                      		which are that much therefore shorter in shaft than the
                                                                      		detached balconies, and the shortest indeed I ever saw:
                                                                      		and to sympathize with this thin capitals are flat

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