Excerpt: ...many souls be saved;' and, having said this, he lay down and was carried on to St. Maria degli Angeli. On the evening of the 4th of October his death was revealed at the very hour to the bishop of Assisi on Mount Sarzana."-Crowe and Cavalcasella. in any case, the meaning of the entire system of work remains unchanged, as I have given it above. THE FOURTH MORNING. THE VAULTED BOOK. As early as may be this morning, let us look for a minute or two into the cathedral: -I was going to say, entering by one of the side ...
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Excerpt: ...many souls be saved;' and, having said this, he lay down and was carried on to St. Maria degli Angeli. On the evening of the 4th of October his death was revealed at the very hour to the bishop of Assisi on Mount Sarzana."-Crowe and Cavalcasella. in any case, the meaning of the entire system of work remains unchanged, as I have given it above. THE FOURTH MORNING. THE VAULTED BOOK. As early as may be this morning, let us look for a minute or two into the cathedral: -I was going to say, entering by one of the side doors of the aisles;-but we can't do anything else, which perhaps might not strike you unless you were thinking specially of it. There are no transept doors; and one never wanders round to the desolate front. From either of the side doors, a few paces will bring you to the middle of the nave, and to the point opposite the middle of the third arch from the west end; where you will find yourself-if well in the mid-wave-standing on a circular slab of green porphyry, which marks the former place of the grave of the bishop Zenobius. The larger inscription, on the wide circle of the floor outside of you, records the translation of his body; the smaller one round the stone at your feet-"quiescimus, domum hanc quum adimus ultimam"-is a painful truth, I suppose, to travellers like us, who never rest anywhere now, if we can help it. Resting here, at any rate, for a few minutes, look up to the whitewashed vaulting of the compartment of the roof next the west end. You will see nothing whatever in it worth looking at. Nevertheless, look a little longer. But the longer you look, the less you will understand why I tell you to look. It is nothing but a whitewashed ceiling: vaulted indeed, -but so is many a tailor's garret window, for that matter. Indeed, now that you have looked steadily for a minute or so, and are used to the form of the arch, it seems to become so small that you can almost fancy it the ceiling of a good-sized lumber-room in...
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