Notre-Dame. With Illus. by Hugo, Bayard, Brion, Johannot, and Others, Volume 1Little Brown, 1887 |
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Page 119 - Romanceros to which it is a sister production — the prodigious result of a draught upon the whole resources of an era — in which, upon every stone, is seen displayed, in a hundred varieties, the fancy of the workman disciplined by the genius of the artist — a sort of human Creation, in short, mighty and prolific as the Divine Creation, of which it seems to have caught the double character — variety and eternity.
Page 119 - Philip Augustus, who laid the last. Upon the face of this ancient queen of French cathedrals, beside each wrinkle we constantly find a scar. Tempus edax, homo edacior - which we would willingly render thus - Time is blind, but man is stupid. If we had leisure to examine one by one, with the reader, the traces of destruction imprinted on this ancient church, those due to Time would be found to form the lesser portion - the worst destruction has been perpetrated by men - especially by 'men of art'.