The Architectural magazine . reed {h) which circumscribes whole compartments of columnarcomposition ; besides others less important in the embellishments 3 of the columns themselves; in allof which applica-tions of mould-in fj it is mean-while to be ob-served that theabsence alike ofvariety and ofminuteness was in strict accordance with the character of theprimitive members, few and bold, and with the simplicity appro-priate to the earliest works of Classic Architecture arc fixed or arbitrary. 21 It may also be worthy of a passing remark, that the archi-tecture of Egypt, under this form,
The Architectural magazine . reed {h) which circumscribes whole compartments of columnarcomposition ; besides others less important in the embellishments 3 of the columns themselves; in allof which applica-tions of mould-in fj it is mean-while to be ob-served that theabsence alike ofvariety and ofminuteness was in strict accordance with the character of theprimitive members, few and bold, and with the simplicity appro-priate to the earliest works of Classic Architecture arc fixed or arbitrary. 21 It may also be worthy of a passing remark, that the archi-tecture of Egypt, under this form, offers a powerful, thoughdoubtless an accidental, illustration of local as well as of con-structive fitness. Placed upon far-extended plains, spotted withpalm trees, but diversified by no playfulness of natural scenery,there was, in the stern simplicity of its gigantic temples, a sullengrandeur well fitted to their situation, and which seemed tobespeak them the offspring of the soil on which they rested;while the absence of all minutiae of moulding rendered eventheir details conspicuous and effective at almost the greatest dis-tance at which the eye could comprehend the mass. The adapt-ation to locality in these instances is the same, though developedby an opposite process, as that which makes the remains ofpointed architecture, in our own country, to stand in such beau-tiful harmony with the variety and grouping of nature. It will be obvious, th
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