836 THE BUTTERFLY. 



possess more of unity than the anguhir form produced by the tcrps 

 of Grecian apertures, or by two cohimns with their entablature — 

 if continuity of lines, rising from the ground up into all the 

 ramifications of a lofty vault, have a tendency to produce unity of 

 design in an interior, rather than a multiplicity of rectangular 

 figures in which the horizontal divides the attention with the 

 perpendicular — and if in external architecture variety of distribu- 

 tion, towering forms, and every light diversity of termination 

 presented to the sky, be adapted to harmonize with the objects of 

 nature, and to gain new interest from all atmospherical changes, 

 more effectually than can masses prevailingly square, under the 

 occasional relief of pediment and cupola, of balustrade and misap- 

 plied statuary — while in union with such assumed advantages 

 every feature of detail is characterised by an admirable accordance 

 ■with the genius of the whole — then is Gothic architecture so far 

 from yielding in harmony to Grecian, that it surpasses it, and that 

 almost as greatly in this particular as it does in its display of 

 inventive genius, its fitness for the most extensive application, and 

 its command of the most powerful emotion, even apart from 

 the force of association. 



I trust. Sir, that the preceding remarks have neither been too 

 technical nor too prolix. The subject, indeed, would seem 

 rather to require extension than compression, as meriting from 

 those who think for themselves, upon matters of taste, the greater 

 attention when students demand for, and when Englishmen are 

 willing to concede to, foreign styles of art so much beyond their 

 due 'f and when an architect of the celebrity of the German Klenze 

 roundly asserts that " there never has been nor can be more than 

 one system of architecture properly so called, viz. that which was 

 perfected at the purest period of Grecian art" — of course the age 

 of Pericles, when even the properties of the arch were not brought 

 to light, much less the marvellous combinations resulting from 

 their discovery. 



E.T. 



THE BUTTERFLY. 



FROM THE FRKNCH OF DE LAMARTINE. 



" Naitre avec le printemps, mourir avec les roses," 



To be born with the sprinn^, with the roses to die. 

 On the light wings of zephyr to float through the sky ; 

 Just poised on the bosom of summers young flowers, 

 To drink deep of their perfume, *mid brijjht sunny bowers • 

 To shake from thy young wing the fresh gathered bloom ; 

 Like a sigh to ascend towards creation's wide dome ; — 

 Ah ! such is thy fate, fleeting insect of spring ! — 

 Like the spirit's desire, still, still on the wing ! — 

 Vainly skimming each chalice of earth-born delight. 

 Till it soar to a region eternally bright 1 



