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AIR OF GREECE.
This permitted her also to decorate her buildings with the brilliant
and varied hues which Painting lent to her Sister-Art, and to imitate
the clearness of her own sky and the freshness of her own sea, by those
architectural embellishments which Art would not venture to adopt, except
in a country alone, where Nature has eclipsed in brightness and vivacity
of execution every thing that Art can conceive.
AIR OF GREECE.
This permitted her also to decorate her buildings with the brilliant
and varied hues which Painting lent to her Sister-Art, and to imitate
the clearness of her own sky and the freshness of her own sea, by those
architectural embellishments which Art would not venture to adopt, except
in a country alone, where Nature has eclipsed in brightness and vivacity
of execution every thing that Art can conceive.