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                                                                      	Gothic types, as the trefoil, tracery bar, etc, the who[i]le
                                                                      aim being to involve the building in a graceful net of
                                                                      lines not to fix the eye on any definite forms:  Divides
                                                                      into
                                                                                3. a.    	 French flamboyant.
                                                                                3.b.	 English perpendicular.
                                                                                Now of these styles:  1. b. is actually the noblest existing;
                                                                      because it was practised by the noblest men in the noblest
                                                                      styles in the noblest time of Italian mind;  and it was
                                                                      brought to absolute completion in its methods of finish:
                                                                      though architecturally speaking its science and
                                                                      system are not so fine as those of 2a:  1. a. was always
                                                                      hampered by the inferior natural of the north;  and
                                                                      necessarily rose to the form 2 a: while the Italians rested
                                                                      in their perfect 1 b and their 2 b was only a domestic
                                                                      school.  The spirit of the Grotesque in the North is
                                                                      also to be considered as opposed to the Italian dignity
                                                                      and rest.
                                                                      Then further, observe, 1. b. in its degration, becamw the
                                                                      Gothic of Como:  of the Centour, of the Colleone, at
                                                                      Bergano: (and perhaps of Maonza and C[X]arrara - consider if
                                                                      there are not a two separate early school) and that not
                                                                      altogether ungracefully;  because never having lost
                                                                      sight of the surface, the cinque cento work mixed
                                                                      naturally with the rest:  but the French, before they
                                                                      came to the same

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