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The massy pillars were left unviolated by the petty hand of household neatness: they stood severe in monumental granite, unwhitewashed, unstuccoed, without tricks or frippery.

From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. by De Quincey, Thomas