Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 19
t in outline, if notin idea; but they were very few, andthey seem to have produced nothing new :all they did was to modify and perfectEgyptian suggestion, and drop its sym-bolism from ornament. The Roman, although inheriting fromthe Greek, paid much more attention to household art. Poor as… … Pompeian Table. FURNITURE IN THE BEGINNING. 15 his summer luxury in Pompeii and elsewhere, he was prodigal of beautyin grafting all manner of Egyptian ornament upon Greek form till fancycould go no further. But when Rome went to pieces, such household art as had alreadybeen accomplished went with…
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