 | Thomas Burgess - 1782 - 168 pages
...added to its original fimplicity an elegance which has excited the univerfal admiration of pofterity. The Corinthians a rich and luxurious people, not contented...to the very verge of vicious refinement. And thus, (fo connected in their origin are the Arts, fo fimilar in their progrefs and revolutions,) the fame... | |
 | James Dallaway - 1800 - 566 pages
...original limplicity an elegance, which hrs excited the univerfal admiration of pofterity. The Corirthians, a rich and luxurious people, not contented with former...to the very verge of vicious refinement. And thus (fo connected in their origin are the arts, fo fimilar in their progrefs and revolutions) the fame... | |
 | Thomas Moule - 1833 - 200 pages
...austerity of their national character which displayed itself in their language and music. The lonians added to its original simplicity an elegance which has excited...those three characters of style in architecture, which one of the most judicious critics of Greece remarked in its language. The Dorians exhibited an order... | |
 | Thomas Moule - 1833 - 204 pages
...posterity. The Corinthians, a rich and luxurious people, not contented with former im148 provements, extended the art to the very verge of vicious refinement....those three characters of style in architecture, which one of the most judicious critics of Greece remarked in its language. The Dorians exhibited an order... | |
 | 1836 - 362 pages
...of their national character, which displayed itself in their language and music. The lonians added to its original simplicity an elegance which has excited...those three characters of style in architecture, which one of the most judicious critics0 of Greece remarked in its lanc Dionysius Hal. Ilepi 2vvQ. sect.... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pages
...of their national character, which displayed itself in their language and music. The lonians added to its original simplicity an elegance which has excited...Dionysius of Halicarnassus, one of the most judicious critics of Greece, remarked in its language. The Dorians exhibited an order of building like the style... | |
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THE history of architecture, like that of other arts, marks out the progression of manners. Among the Dorians it carried with it the austerity of their national character, which displayed itself in their language and music. The lonians added to its original... 