. The Decorator's assistant. eaves and beriies in the triumphal crownpresented by colonies and provinces to gene-rjils Avho had gained great victories ; and, grand processions awarded in honour ofmiddle I such victories, these crowns or garlands occu figes, the vine-leaf figures as a chief feature in : pied a distinguished place in the customaryi iiTfirious lecorative con))obitions of surpassing insignia. That the laurel, itself, was a pre-^.meiit; ilUiatiativ*; ^pcti^llells of ivhitili we may servative from the of lightning, Was 4, THE decorators ASSISTANT. 37 superstitiojti mu
. The Decorator's assistant. eaves and beriies in the triumphal crownpresented by colonies and provinces to gene-rjils Avho had gained great victories ; and, grand processions awarded in honour ofmiddle I such victories, these crowns or garlands occu figes, the vine-leaf figures as a chief feature in : pied a distinguished place in the customaryi iiTfirious lecorative con))obitions of surpassing insignia. That the laurel, itself, was a pre-^.meiit; ilUiatiativ*; ^pcti^llells of ivhitili we may servative from the of lightning, Was 4, THE decorators ASSISTANT. 37 superstitiojti much in vogue with the ancient?^,as we may gather from their historians ; andthat even the Roman emperors, themselvres,were not exempt from so vain a conceit, welearn from the anecdote related by Suetoniusof the emperor , who, during the pre-valence of a thunder-storm, was accustomed tocover his head with a laurel chaplet, in thefirm conviction of the efficacy of this speciesof lightning conductor, or rather, IHosclcfis €:ontinurti M^bolbing It is only the practical mechanic who is tho-roughly acquainted with the variety of diffi-,culties which present themselves in boring holes,especially those of a small description. Awarfiof these difficulties ourselves, we most gladly laybefore our readers a representation of a most averter. The leaf and berry, also, not un-frequently occur in the shape of a closelyserried fillet, or running band. The essentialpoint to be attended to in laurel ornament, is thepeculiar lance-headed character of the leaves,and the tendency of the latter to arrangethemselves in something of a scale-like, oroverlapping form. (To be continued.) William Hazlitt justly compares the correct-ness and chastened rules of Grecian architeetureto those of the Greek tragedians, and theelements of its style to the purity of theirincomparable language. A Doric temple,observes this discriminating critic, differs froma Gothic cathedral, as Sophocles does fr
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