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                                                                      	even in the Griffin wings, and mix it with ivy leaves
                                                                      in their animal friezes.
                                                                      It is howverr on the west front that Lord L’s description
                                                                      is most justified - but he has not said half enough;  The
                                                                      state of mind which it represents seems more that of a
                                                                      feverish dream, than of any determined architectural
                                                                      purpose;  or ev[b]en of any definite love and delight in
                                                                      the grotesque:  One capital is covered with a mass of
                                                                       grinning heads:  other heads grow out of two bodies, or
                                                                      our of and under feet - the creatures are all fighting
                                                                      or devouring - or struggling, for which shall be upper-
                                                                      most and yet in an ineffectual way, as if they would fight
                                                                                    for ever, and come to no decision (dyspeptic again)
                                                                      Neither sphinxes nor centaurs did I notice, - nor a single
                                                                      peacock (I believe Peacocks to be purely Byzantine)
                                                                      but mermaids with two tails (the scukptor having perhaps
                                                                      seen double[w] at the time)   (a good deal like archivolt   
                                                                      of St Marks lower figure)   strange large fish - apes -
                                                                      stags - (bulls?) dogs and wolves, and horses, griffins -
                                                                      eagles - long tailed birds not peacocks (cocks?) hawks;
                                                                      and dragons without end, or with a dozen of ends, as the
                                                                      case may be) smaller birds, with rabbits, and small non-
                                                                      descrps, filling the friezes,  Of one of these friezes
                                                                      the outer arch of the northern porch or door, the three
                                                                      topmost circles are given at (fig 5  No 182) to be com-
                                                                      pared with the Byzantine snails;  the actual leaf which is
                                                                      used in the moulding in the house behind Ca Foscari,
                                                                      occurs in other parts of this Pavian arch: and the
                                                                      principle of the whole is exactly the same.  But the
                                                                      Lombard animals are all alive

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