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                                                                      			Lyons Cathedral
Really posterior to the calm one of Bourges;  and how did it arise?   
Observe at p 177 the bases and general Gothic system (as in advance of		17.  A sprig of hazel with nuts thrown all round the 4 foil
Lyons at Bourges.                                                     		with a squirrel in centre;  apparently attached to the tree
                                                                      		only by its enormous tail - richly furrowed into hair and
                                                                      		nobly sweeping
(x)   Wrestlers also occur in several of the compartments             		18.  4 hares, rudely sketched on No 185 which gives the
                                                                      		4 foil panel Mingled with these grotesques are many sword
                                                                      		and buckler combats (x)   the bucklers being round and
                                                                      		conical like a witches hat:  I thought the first I noticed
                                                                      		carried by a man at full gallop on horseback, had been a
                                                                      		small umbrella.
Consider also Hindoo Gods out of rice diet - Compare the Westminster  Early Grotesques	Now, in what does all this differ from the Cinq cento
and foreign Quarterly p 191.                                          Its spirit.	flat and cold Grotesque:  Chiefly in its energy and
                                                                      		involuntariness:  It is like natural wit compared
                                                                      		with Euphuism:  It is the overflowing fancy of children
                                                                      Diet and	compared with the drivelling of old men.  (Consider if the
                                                                      Imagination	exercise and carnivorous habits of the north did not compel
                                                                      		this feverish fancy as opposed to the polenta eating Italian.)
                                                                      		The learned sculptor ought to be able to do more than
                                                                      		grotesque:  His laboured nonsense is wrong and mean:  But
                                                                      		from the northern peasant, the vision or ghostly
                                                                      		superstition comes well.
                                                                      (Romansque.   In south of France.  Note Murray’s Guide at p 438)
                                                                      		These filled panels are however by far the poorest part of
                                                                      		the carving of the facade:  Its most wonderful portions
                                                                      		on the pedestals of the niches between the porches.  This plan

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