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 272
one could be morefitting than the seven ages of man. I should, fora dial, take none of the finished fancies of modernsculptors and painters, but some of the cruder Symbolic Designs for Sun-dials 197 notions of earlier days, such, for instance, as a largeblock-print in the British Museum (facing… … Four Seasons Dial-face. but Hippocrates (460-357 b.c.) and Proclus (412-485 A.D.) made seven ages. A mosaic on the pave-ment of the cathedral at Siena, supposed to havebeen laid in 1476, gives seven ages. This block-print is believed to be older still. The four seasons offer naturally suggestions…
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