A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1902)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886, Spiers, Richard Phené, 1838-1916, Kerr, Robert, 1823-1904 · London, J. Murray · leaf 295
o one another and to the WQrk theyhave to perform, that command the admiration of every person oftaste; but, as used in Greece, its beauty was very much enhanced bya number of refinements whose existence was not suspected till lately,and even now cannot be detected but by the most practised eye.… … 136. Temple at Delos. 137. Parthenon at Athens. 13S. Temple at Corinth. by a very delicate hyperbolic curve ; it is true this can hardly bedetected by the eye in ordinary positions, but the want of it gives Bk. III. Ch. II. DORIC ORDER. 261 that rigidity and poverty to the column which is…
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