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Article: Beams of light: Looking at architecture
- Article from:
- Journal of American Culture
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright American Culture Association Spring 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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"The church stands high on the summit of this granite rock, and on the west front is the platform, to which the tourist ought first to climb. From the edge of this platform, the eye plunges down, two hundred and thirty-five feet, to the wide sands or the wider ocean, as the tides recede or advance, under an infinite sky, over a restless sea, which even we tourists can understand and feel without books or guides; but when we turn from the western view, and look at the church door, thirty or forty yards from the parapet where we stand, one needs to know what this mass of encrusted architecture meant to its builders, and even then one must still learn to feel it. The man who wanders into the ...