Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems (1902)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York; London : Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 230
not what could be doneWith a bit of rock, and a ray of sun. —James Russell Lowell. EARLY all original forms ofsun-dials were good, becausesimple and conventional,and certain decorative ideaswhich appeared after a timewere also good; but sun-dials in general, as made to-day, have scant… … 164 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday as an architectural detail, not as an individual ob-ject with a place of its own in the world; thereis a lack of appreciation of the ideality of thesun-dial. All this commonplaceness of design willvanish, all this monotony cease, if designers learn tolove the…
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