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                                                                      	and treated, throughout Europe, with a quietness and
                                                                      purity of feeling which - whatever the 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 Af[g]fection, or sorrow un-
                                                                      satisfied.
                                                                      
                                                                      	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 Sarco-
                                                                      phagus is either surrounded by niches - or arches - con-
                                                                      taining figures:  or decorated by plain Gothic foliated
                                                                      traceries.  But in the south, the types of the classical
                                                                      sarcophagus was never lost sight of;  and it is in the
                                                                      rich examples almost always  divided into panels by deep
                                                                      florid cornices, and charged with complicated bas reliefs
                                                                      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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