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through the streets of Micklegarth, and hedged Lecture II*
with their axes the throne of Kirialax the Greek Art and the
king, it was alive & vigorous* When blind Dan/ Beauty of
dolo was led from the Venetian galleys on to the the Earth*
conquered wall of Constantinople, it was near to
its best & purest days* WLen Constantine Pakeo/
logus came back an old and care/worn man from
a peacefuller home in the Morea to his doom in
the great city, and the last Caesar got the muddle
of his life solved, not ingloriously, by Turkish
swords on the breached and battered walls of
that same Constantinople, there were signs of
sickness beginning to show in the art that sprang
from there to cover east and west alike with its
glory-
And all thattime it was the art of free men* WLat/
ever slavery still existed in the world (more than
enough, as always) art had no share in it; & still
it was only here & there that any great names rose
above the host of those that wrought it* These
names (& it was mainly in Italy only) came to the
front when those branches of it that were the work
of collective rather than individual genius, archi/
tecture especially, had quite reached their highest
perfection* Men began to look round for some/
thing more startlinglynew than the slow, gradual
change of architecture & the attendant lesser arts
could give themuThis change they found in the gl0/
rious work of the painters, & they received it with
an out/spoken excitement and joy that seems
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with their axes the throne of Kirialax the Greek Art and the
king, it was alive & vigorous* When blind Dan/ Beauty of
dolo was led from the Venetian galleys on to the the Earth*
conquered wall of Constantinople, it was near to
its best & purest days* WLen Constantine Pakeo/
logus came back an old and care/worn man from
a peacefuller home in the Morea to his doom in
the great city, and the last Caesar got the muddle
of his life solved, not ingloriously, by Turkish
swords on the breached and battered walls of
that same Constantinople, there were signs of
sickness beginning to show in the art that sprang
from there to cover east and west alike with its
glory-
And all thattime it was the art of free men* WLat/
ever slavery still existed in the world (more than
enough, as always) art had no share in it; & still
it was only here & there that any great names rose
above the host of those that wrought it* These
names (& it was mainly in Italy only) came to the
front when those branches of it that were the work
of collective rather than individual genius, archi/
tecture especially, had quite reached their highest
perfection* Men began to look round for some/
thing more startlinglynew than the slow, gradual
change of architecture & the attendant lesser arts
could give themuThis change they found in the gl0/
rious work of the painters, & they received it with
an out/spoken excitement and joy that seems
7