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BACON PALACE
Bases. I am thoroughly at fault about their bases: the only
octagonal without leaves that I have come across - more
so still about the capitals - whose section (inside the
bell and outside line the flowers) is rudely given in fig 2
same page : They are likest in style and flow to the
best one of the Doge palace 3rd order, but infinitely
more masculine, all in red marble, all the leaves springing
from root and touching abacus with their point - very few
rolling waves of the bell in each - I think no ribs; they
are kept light in effect by the absence of all ponderous
projection; and then made sublime by the simplicity of th
their flow - set off by the autumnal glow and smooth
sea-like surface of their marble: Ithink they are the
finest capitals - for pure surface work: and for an
effect of sublimity with richness and grace, I have
ever seen.
The windows on these pillars are not less remarkable -
their contour is seen in Dog: but observe the character of
their transition: They would almost be pure 5th were it
not that instead of their lower joint being purely
segmental of circle, as a opp it begins to turn atthe
end in sympathy with the ogee. Explain this in my
first chapter on 5th order. These windows are all
worked with c section in the proportion given at
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