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an exquisite proportion is united with a chasteness of 
decoration, which stamps them perfect works of art. Each 
of the five orders was so nicely determined by their pro- 
found knowledge of the harmony of forms, and admirably 
executed, that all modern attempts at improving them have 
entirely failed, for they are, individually, complete models. 
“ First unadorned 
And nobly plain, the manly Doric rose ; 
The Ionic then with decent matron grace 
Her airy pillar heaved ; luxuriant last 
The rich Corinthian spread her wanton wreath.” 
A single or double portico of columns supporting a lofty 
pediment, the latter connected with the main body of the 
building, which in most cases was a simple parallelogram, 
were the characteristic features of the pure Grecian archi- 
tecture. And this very simplicity of form, united with the 
chasteness of decoration, and elegance of proportion, en- 
hanced greatly the beauty of the Grecian temple as a whole. 
To the scholar, and the man of refined and cultivated mind, 
the associations connected with Grecian architecture are of 
the most delightful character. They transport him back, in 
imagination, to the choice days of classic literature and art, 
when the disciples of the wisest and best of Athens, listened 
to eloquent discourses that were daily delivered from her 
grove-embowered porticoes. When her temples were de- 
signed by a Phidias, and her architecture encouraged and 
patronized by a Pericles ; when, in short, all the splendor of 
Pagan mythology, and the wisdom of Greek philosophy were 
combined to perfect the arts and sciences of that period, and 
the temples, dedicated to the Olympian Jove or the stately 
Minerva, were redolent with that beauty , which the Greeks 
