The Artist's Repository, Or, Encyclopedia of the Fine Arts (Band 2): Perspective, Architecture (London, 1808)

2 architecture. [lect. I.

Chosen by the Sovereign Planter, when he framed

All things toman's delightful use; the roof

Of thickest covert was in woven shade;

Laurel and Myrtle, and what higher grew

Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side

Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub

Fenced up the verdant wall; each beauteous flower,

Iris all hues, Roses, and Jessamine,

Rear'd high their flourish'd heads between, and wrought

Mosaic ; underfoot the Violet,

Crocus, and Hyacinth, with rich inlay

Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone

Of costliest emblem :--

The traces of this " shady lodge" are not oblite-
rated among his posterity j nor will be, while hits
(a tree) bears any resemblance to huts, or its de-
rivatives, in several languages spoken among the sons
of men.

What might be the abode of Adam after his ex-
pulsion from bliss, or, what kind of city Cain might
erect, we know not : possibly, the fortress of his
security was but a composition of mud-walls, and
reeds \ rather exposing than concealing the trembling
vagabond.

I confess, my reflections lead me to think, that
the Antediluvians had little occasion for the study of
Architecture to any extent, as a science: for
we mull not conceive of certain natural things then,
as we experience them to be now. It is likely,
the earth "was at that time, not only more fertile,
but also more temperate j that the seasons were less
rigorous, and the wants of human life less nume-
rous. The Deluge, which changed considerably the

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