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The History of Modern Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans B.C. 146, to ... - Page 189
by Sir James Emerson Tennent - 1830 - 1025 pages
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The Works of Mr. James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and ..., Volume 2

James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - English literature - 1802 - 322 pages
...monuments of shame. Not those gay domes that o'er thy splendid shore 380 Shot, all proportion, up. First unadorn'd, And nobly plain, the manly Doric...Ionic then, with decent matron grace, Her airy pillar heav'd ; luxuriant last, The rich Corinthian spread her wanton wreath. 385 The whole so measur'd true,...
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The Works of Mr. James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and ..., Volume 2

James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - English literature - 1802 - 344 pages
...monuments of shame. Not those gay domes that o'er thy splendid shore 380 Shot, all proportion, up. First unadorn'd, And nobly plain, the manly Doric...Ionic then, with decent matron grace, Her airy pillar heav'd ; luxuriant last, The rich Corinthian spread her wanton wreath. 385 The whole so measur'd true,...
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Romances

Isaac Disraeli - English fiction - 1803 - 274 pages
...the tasteless criticism of Johason: -First, unadorned, And nobly plain, the manly doric rose ; The ionic then, with decent matron grace, Her airy pillar...last, The rich Corinthian spread her wanton wreath. Liberty, part ii. v. 381. "NOTE (t>) page 40. An Italian poet ingeniously conceived this idea:... Tu...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...splendid shore Shot, all proportion, up. First unadorn'd, And nobly plain, the manly Doric rose ; The' Ionic then, with decent matron grace, Her airy pillar...The rich Corinthian spread her wanton wreath. The whole so measured true, so lessen'd off By fine proportion, that the marble pile, Form'd to repel the...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 270 pages
...splendid shore Shot, all proportion, up. First uiiadorn'd, And nobly plain, the manly Doric rose; The' Ionic then, with decent matron grace, Her airy pillar...The rich Corinthian spread her wanton wreath. The whole so measured true, so lessen'd off By fine proportion, that the marble pile, Form'd to repel the...
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Elements of general history, with a continuation by E. Nares

Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1840 - 684 pages
...and pleases only a corrupted taste. First unadorned, " And nobly plain, the manly Doric rose; " The Ionic then, with decent matron grace, " Her airy pillar...'• The rich Corinthian spread her wanton wreath." TUOMSON'I Liberty, part 2. 4. The Tuscan and the Composite orders are of Italian origin. The Etruscan...
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A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to ...

Andrew Jackson Downing - Landscape gardening - 1844 - 546 pages
...they are, individually, complete models. -"First unadorned And nobly plain, the manly Doric rose; The Ionic then with decent matron grace Her airy pillar...last The rich Corinthian spread her wanton wreath." A single or double portico of columns supporting a lofty pediment, the latter connected with the main...
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A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to ...

Andrew Jackson Downing - Landscape gardening - 1844 - 550 pages
...individually, complete models. -"First unadorned And nobly plain, the manly Doric roee; The Ionic the n with decent matron grace Her airy pillar heaved; luxuriant...last The rich Corinthian spread her wanton wreath." A single or double portico of columns supporting a lofty pediment, the latter connected with the main...
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A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to ...

Andrew Jackson Downing - Architecture, Domestic - 1844 - 548 pages
...are, individually, complete models. ' First unadorned And nobly plain, the manly Doric rose ;' The Ionic then with decent matron grace Her airy pillar heaved; luxuriant last The rich Corintliian spread her wanton wreath." A single or double portico of columns supporting a lofty pediment,...
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The history of literature; or, The rise and progress of language ..., Volume 2

sir William Cathcart Boyd - 1844 - 502 pages
...union of all the above characters— " First, unadorned And nobly plain, the manly Doric rose; The Ionic then, with decent matron grace, Her airy pillar heaved; luxuriant, last, 1 The rich Corinthian spread her wanton wreath." Thomson's Liberty. 1 Besides the three orders above...
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