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GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE.
Paet I.
tlie architrayes, the triglyphs, and the various parts of the cornice, all
bore traces clown to the latest period.
Even as ordinarily represented, or as copied in this country, there
is a degree of solidity combined with elegance in this order, and an
exquisite proportion of the parts to one another ancl to the work they
have to perform, that command the admiration of every person of
taste ; but, as used in Greece, its beauty was very much enhanced by
a number of refinements whose existence was not suspected till lately,
and even now cannot be detected but by the most practised eye.
The columns were at first assumed to be bounded by straight lines.
It is now found that they have an entcisis, or convex profile, in the
Parthenon to tbe extent of of the whole height, and are outlined
by a very delicate hyperbolic curve \ it is true this can hardly be
detected by the eye in ordinary positions, but the want of it gives
GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE.
Paet I.
tlie architrayes, the triglyphs, and the various parts of the cornice, all
bore traces clown to the latest period.
Even as ordinarily represented, or as copied in this country, there
is a degree of solidity combined with elegance in this order, and an
exquisite proportion of the parts to one another ancl to the work they
have to perform, that command the admiration of every person of
taste ; but, as used in Greece, its beauty was very much enhanced by
a number of refinements whose existence was not suspected till lately,
and even now cannot be detected but by the most practised eye.
The columns were at first assumed to be bounded by straight lines.
It is now found that they have an entcisis, or convex profile, in the
Parthenon to tbe extent of of the whole height, and are outlined
by a very delicate hyperbolic curve \ it is true this can hardly be
detected by the eye in ordinary positions, but the want of it gives