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I have never heard adeguate praise
bestowed on the flower wreaths in
carved stone which so greatly adorn
the spandrels of the vaulting. Their
extraordinary variety is only one of
their many claims on our admiration.
The completeness of St. Paul’s
places it at the head of English
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Salisbury can compete with it; but,
much as one must admire Salisbury,
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utely subtle proportion which marks
his smallest work; and, on the other hand, he did not fall into the
error of thinking that
the proportions of a
great building and of
a small one can be
the same. We may
be sure that if he
had built St. Paul's
on the plan of St.
Stephen's, Wal¬
brook, the propor¬
tions would have
been very different.