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                                                                      		and treated, throughout Europe, with a quietness and
                                                                      		purity of feeling which - whatever the changes varieties of manner
                                                                      		in grouping or decoration, never fails of impressing the
                                                                      		same solemn and confounding emotion - never outsteps the
                                                                      		humility of mortality - never betrays the Assurance of
                                                                      		Faith, it leaves the demands of Affection, {or sorrow}
                                                                      		unsatisfied.
                                                                      
                                                                      		We shall examine the differences in architectural treatment
                                                                      		in order:
                                                                      		The chief difference between northern and southern
                                                                      		manner is perhaps in the Sarcophagus:  The Northern Sarcophagus
                                                                      		is either surrounded by niches - or arches - containing
                                                                      		figures:  or decorated by plain Gothic foliated
                                                                      		traceries.  But in the south, the types given by of the classical
                                                                      		sarcophagus was never lost sight of;  and it is {in the
                                                                      		rich examples} almost always  div (charged with {complicated} bas 		reliefs3) (and2) (divided into panels by deep florid 			cornices1)
                                                                      		A simple - almost an Egyptian type - signed merely by the
                                                                      		cross; is employed in the less elaborate examples:  the
                                                                      		bas reliefs are almost always two only on the longer side;
                                                                      		one at the end:  and [?] niches containing figures occupy
                                                                      		the centre and the angles:
                                                                      		In Venice, their sarcophagi are placed, most usually on

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