Capitolo 50
Cathedral of Rentals (1195-1210), and in front of the Church of Abbey of
Saint-Denis, this room and his/her neighbour the refectory, studied
together with the cathedral and the abbey, it is exaggeratedly a
liberal education for someone, tourist or engineer or architect, and
it would do the fortune of an intelligent, if such historian owes
happens to exist; but the last thing to which we ask from them is education or
education. We only want them poetry, and it will have to look for
it elsewhere. Here only the hull--the dead art--and silence. The
room is around ninety feet along, and sixty feet in his greater
ampleness. It has three series of columns that make at times four corridors
what they seem to approximately rise twenty-two feet in height. You/he/she is heated from
two enormous and heavy chemineeses or hearths in the wall of out,
among the windows. You/he/she is illuminated beautifully, but above all from
above through round windows in him the to furnish of arcade of the times. The
to build at times is a study for men wiser than us we can be never. More than
winds round columns strong, free or busy with romantic
capitals, sustain heavy ribs or nervures, and while the two plant
corridors are eighteen wide feet, the corridor of out in that the
windows open, they only measure ten feet in ampleness, and they have accordingly
one of the times brusquely sharpened that we will ever satisfy. The whole one
sketch is some as beautiful of first Gothic as it exists, but that that
more duration would take for studying, if time were to save, it would be the
instinct of the presence of the archangel that has animated his
architecture. Which has masculine characters, military energy of Saint that Michael lives
still in every stone. The genius that this warlike emotion is realized
you/he/she has stamped everywhere his/her power on every centimeter of his/her job,;
in every beam of light; on the mass of every shade; everywhere the eye
falls; even more strongly on everybody that the eye foretells, and in the
shades that are felt as the lights. The architect the agreements