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At either end of each of these sides a buttress rises to the base of the parapet in three stages, the second of which has on the front a panel with an ogee crocketed hood and is crowned by a gable with a grotesque at each corner, while the third is narrower, but is also panelled. Various gargoyles project from the uppermost string, which on the east side is not broken by the central pilaster.
The soffit of the arch is carved, and the face of the pilaster below has a very rich and graceful vine arabesque upon it.
In the pilaster if we may believe that the artist took no liberties with fact the junction is direct without the interposition of any ornamental motive. Façade of an Assyrian building; from a bas-relief in the British Museum. But, whether the columns rose from the backs of animals real or fantastic, they always seem to have had a base.
Pilasters or engaged columns support the pediment, their upper molded portion above the necking being carried across the horizontal lintel of the door frame. From the capitals up to the short cornice returns, replacing the usual base of the pediment, the spirit of the entablature is retained by pilaster projections molded after the manner of cornice, frieze and architrave.
The room is divided into compartments which the visitor should examine in their regular order of rotation. He will begin therefore, of course with the Before the first pilaster let the visitor notice at once a small seated statue of Cybele or Fortune, from Athens, presented to the nation by J.S. Gaskoin, Esq.
The fool yet lives to protect her." From the niche in which John Heywood had hid himself he could survey the entire corridor and all the doors opening into it could see everything and hear everything without being himself seen, for the projecting pilaster completely shaded him. So John Heywood stood and listened. All was quiet in the corridor.
The constant mark of Boston is a demure gaiety. An air of quiet festivity encompasses the streets. The houses are elegant, but sternly ordered. If they belong to the colonial style, they are exquisitely symmetrical. There is no pilaster without its fellow; no window that is not nicely balanced by another of self-same shape and size.
Some day, perhaps, the exact significance of this emblem may be explained, we are content to point out the variety and happy arrangement of the sinuous lines which surround and enframe the richly decorated pilaster that acts as its stem. The astragali, the ibex horns and the volutes, may all be easily recognized here. Ivory plaque found at Nimroud. Actual size.
MY DEAR MR. FIELDS, I did promise to write an Introduction to these charming papers but an Introduction, what is it? a sort of pilaster, put upon the face of a building for looks' sake, and usually flat, very flat.
On the nave side, outside the columns, there stands on either side placed like the columns on a high pedestal a pilaster, panelled and carved with exquisite arabesques. These pilasters have no capitals, but instead well-moulded corbels, carved with griffin heads, uphold the entablature, and, by a happy innovation, on the projection thus formed are pedestals bearing short Corinthian columns.
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