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                                                                      		their moulding shown in the pure transparent golden
                                                                      marble;  of which one can see through the edges.  They
                                                                      hardly amount to more than undulations, and would be
                                                                      meagre in a common stone;  above the disposition of the
                                                                      alternate shafts, and squares is shown in fig 2 p 41
                                                                      They are crowned by exquisitely rich and delicate capitals
                                                                      and these support a horizontal frieze thrown across their
                                                                      angles with egg and foliage mouldings of perfect beauty;
                                                                      richly rounded, Almost the same moulding crowns the still
                                                                      more finished detached capital of the two main shafts,
                                                                      rudely sketched at p 42, remarkable for their expansion
                                                                      perhaps the loveliest cinq-cento capitals I have yet
                                                                      seen:  their bases simple and square: (shafts of deep
                                                                      green serpentine opposed to white marble capital and
                                                                      vase [base]) set on a high pedestal, through which is seen a 
                                                                      monster, much broken:  the proportion of pedtesal
                                                                      		to shaft rudely at p 43 1 I; it would be vi[;]l[,]e in a row of
                                                                      shafts - it is beautiful on each side of a porch:  its
                                                                      proportion here [herd] quite perfect.  The whole work in
                                                                      its unity of classical or cinque-cento dignity and
                                                                      grace and delicacy  f ronament and moulding, with a pure
                                                                      early Gothic plan, and intricacy of shadow, is unique;
                                                                      and marks a manner never yet worked out: and soon lost
                                                                      by the over prevalence of renaissance forms.
                                                                      		    Its foliation is throughout also full of grace,
                                                                      though received with flat fillets. purely penetrative
                                                                      like slender trefoils and alwsys

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