History of architecture, from the earliest times; its present condition in Europe and the United States; with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms (1848)
Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879 · Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston · leaf 116
y mourn-ed by her faithful nurse; as a tribute of affection, thishumble friend placed upon the grave of her youngmistress a basket, covered with a tile, containing herjewels. As if to beautify this act of love, a graceful acanthus spread its leavesaround the basket, andthus was suggested to or?… … GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE. 95 of rows of delicate leaves, that Callimachus cannot layclaim to the invention; we may still believe that inthis case genius may have seized upon an accidentalcircumstance, and reproduced, in a more perfect andbeautiful form, what had long been invented. The body of the…
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