ethan designs, had been originally imported fromCentral America, and a careful perusal of the works already adverted to, in con-nexion with the recent discoveries in that interesting country, will, we think, go farto produce a general conviction that many of the details in Elizabethan ornamentare… … The ornamental decorations of Italy have been long and deservedly held in highestimation. They are at once elegant and lively, and harmonize well with thoseelegancies of life found among a lively and refined people. Italian ornament com-bines many of the beauties of the ornamental decorations of…
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