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888 ENGLISH GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. Bock YIH.
vicious to conceal construction, it is bacl architecture to let the devices
of construction predominate over the actual outline of the niain huilding
itself. Not only does it suggest weakness, hut it produces a flutter and
perplexity that never is nor can he satisfactory. These faults are as
usual exaggerated at Cologne, hut almost all French cathedrals exhibit
715. View oi Lichfleld Cathedral. From Britton’s Cathedral Antiquities.
ihem, though to a less extent. It would be diffieult to find a. siugle
instance of these faults in England. The pinnacles and huttresses seem
abwnys put there more for ornament than for any other purpose, and as
if to suggest the idea of superabundant strength rather than to counter-
act apparent weakness. The walls always seem t.o suffice, and thesc
to he mercly adjuncts.
vicious to conceal construction, it is bacl architecture to let the devices
of construction predominate over the actual outline of the niain huilding
itself. Not only does it suggest weakness, hut it produces a flutter and
perplexity that never is nor can he satisfactory. These faults are as
usual exaggerated at Cologne, hut almost all French cathedrals exhibit
715. View oi Lichfleld Cathedral. From Britton’s Cathedral Antiquities.
ihem, though to a less extent. It would be diffieult to find a. siugle
instance of these faults in England. The pinnacles and huttresses seem
abwnys put there more for ornament than for any other purpose, and as
if to suggest the idea of superabundant strength rather than to counter-
act apparent weakness. The walls always seem t.o suffice, and thesc
to he mercly adjuncts.