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                                                                      	17.  A sprig of hazel with nuts thrown all round the 4 foil
	Really posterior to the calm one of Bourges;  and how                with a squirrel in centre;  apparently attached to the tree
did it arise?                                                         only by its enormous tail - richly furrowed into hair and
 Observe at p 177 the brass and general Gothic system (as             nobly sweeping
in advance of Lyons at Bourges.                                       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 buckles being round and
	(x)   Wrestlers also occur in several of the compartments            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.
                                                                      Early Grotesques  Now, in what does all this differe from the Cinq cento
                                                                      Its spirit.	flat and cold Grotesque:  Chiefly in its energy and
                                                                      involuntariness:  It is like natural wit compared
	Consider also Window Gods out of rice diet - Compare the             with Euphinism:  It is the overflowing fancy of children
Westminster and foreign Quarterly p 191.                              compared with the drivelling of old men.  (Consider if the
                                                                      exercise and carnivorous habits of the north did not com-
                                                                      pel 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 vi[a]sion 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 portion
                                                                      on the pedestals of the niches between the porches.  This
                                                                      plan

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