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Identifier: encyclopediaofan01fosb (find matches)
Title: Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Fosbroke, Thomas Dudley, 1770-1842
Subjects: Classical antiquities Civilization, Medieval
Publisher: London : M. A. Nattali
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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GRECIAN AND ROMAN ARCHITECTURE. 33 of the ancient sculptor to simplicityhas been so severe, that even the edgesof the foliage have not been ruifled (toborrow from the Builders Vocabulary),but expressed in gross; and conse-quently the admirers of excessive mi-nuteness in the details of little partswill call such capitals unfinished; al-though the grandeur of design, whenviewed at the distance in which suchobjects were intended to be seen, espe-cially in the majestic temples of Greece,be thereby considerably augmented. Itis to this cause that the Dorick inbuildings of so much vastness, owesits superiority over all other orders ofarchitecture; to that simplicity, whichis the very soul of grandeur, wherenothing that is little can be tolerated foran instant. Excessive minuteness ofdesign may suit the puny imitation ofGrecian architecture seen in the build-ings of modern cities ; upon the sameprinciple that it is allowable in a pieceof Chinese carving in ivory, becauseworks of this kind are

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