Underwood, Loring · Boston, Little Brown, and company · leaf 124
such they served anexcellent purpose. They were also oftenarranged to decorate gardens and court-yards, wherein they served as flower-potsor as pedestals for vases, statuary, andsun-dials. For the most part these capitals are rel-ics from ruined temples and monumentsthat were wantonly destroyed… … THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES or cistern heads, but if used for other or-namental purposes they must appear tohav^e come into position ahnost of theirown accord, as if in tlie course of theirtravels tliey had discovered for themselvesa new purpose to which to devote theirgrace and beauty. The old…
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