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                                                                      	is of the exquisitely neat masonry and perfect
                                                                      feeling ho[a]r[s]e;  a style of Gothic fourmed 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 Pallardio and
                                                                      Sausonivo 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 e z 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 their upper lobes - their only fau[i]lt -
                                                                      They run along the who,e house, and lap over the great
                                                                      pillars of the finestrato, but 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 one 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 l af patteern 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 thincapitals on flat

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