| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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