dorics

Updated: May 2, 2025

Shapeless and half-fashioned masses, ebauches of columns for temples which never came into the possession of capitals, or the support of entablatures unborn Dorics of the Greek portfolios are here. The sun striking obliquely from the mouth into the interior of the cavern, made the green vegetation all hoary in the slanting light. Fires in dark caverns are favourite subjects with some painters.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846