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barbarous Buildings, one cannot but fan-
cy to himself what Miracles of Archi-
tecture they would have left us, had
they only been instrucled in the right
way 5 for when the Devotion of those
Ages was much warmer than it is at pre-
sent, and the Riches of the People
much more at the Disposal of the Priclts,
there was so much Mony consumed on
these Gothic Cathedrals, as would have
fiaish’d a greater Variety of Noble Buil-
dings, than have been raised either be-
fore or since that Time.
One would wonder to see the vast
Labour that has been laid out on this
single Cathedral. The very Spouts are
loaden with Ornaments, the Windows
are form’d like so many Scenes of Per-
spediive, with a Multitude of little Pil-
lars retiring one behind another, the
great Columns are finely engraven with
Fruits and Foliage that run twilling about
them from the very Top to the Bottom,
the whole Body of the Church is che-
quer’d with different Lays of White and
Black Marble, the Pavement curioussy
cut outinDesigns and Scripture-Stories,
and the Front cover’d with such a Va-
riety of Figures, and over-run with so
many little Mazes and Labyrinths of
Sculpture, that nothing in the World
can
barbarous Buildings, one cannot but fan-
cy to himself what Miracles of Archi-
tecture they would have left us, had
they only been instrucled in the right
way 5 for when the Devotion of those
Ages was much warmer than it is at pre-
sent, and the Riches of the People
much more at the Disposal of the Priclts,
there was so much Mony consumed on
these Gothic Cathedrals, as would have
fiaish’d a greater Variety of Noble Buil-
dings, than have been raised either be-
fore or since that Time.
One would wonder to see the vast
Labour that has been laid out on this
single Cathedral. The very Spouts are
loaden with Ornaments, the Windows
are form’d like so many Scenes of Per-
spediive, with a Multitude of little Pil-
lars retiring one behind another, the
great Columns are finely engraven with
Fruits and Foliage that run twilling about
them from the very Top to the Bottom,
the whole Body of the Church is che-
quer’d with different Lays of White and
Black Marble, the Pavement curioussy
cut outinDesigns and Scripture-Stories,
and the Front cover’d with such a Va-
riety of Figures, and over-run with so
many little Mazes and Labyrinths of
Sculpture, that nothing in the World
can