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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
YORK TERRACE,
REGENT'S PARK.
The architecture of the building is Graeco-Italian. It consists of an entrance or ground story, with semicircular headed windows and rusticated piers. A continued pedestal above the arches of these windows runs through the composition, divided between the columns into balustrades, in front of the windows of the principal story, to which they form handsome balconies. The elegant windows of this and the principal chamber story are of the Ilissus Ionic, and are decorated with a colonnade, completed with a well-proportioned entablature from the same beautiful order. Mr. Elmes, in his critical observations on this terrace, thinks the attic story "too irregular to accompany so chaste a composition as the Ionic, to which it forms a crown;" he likewise objects to the cornice and blocking-course, as being "also too small in proportion for the majesty of the lower order."
York Terrace is from the design of Mr. Nash, whose genius not unfrequently strays into such errors as our architectural critic has pointed out.
VALENTINE CUSTOMS.
See No. 356 of the MIRROR, "Valentine's Day."
"First Delphid injured me, he raised my flame, And now I burn this bough in Delphid's name."
Virgil, too, in his 8th Eclogue, alludes to the same charm:--
"Sparge molam, et fragiles incende bitumine lauros; Daphnis me malus urit, ego hanc in Daphnide laurum."
"Next in the fire the bays with brimstone burn, And whilst it crackles in the sulphur, say, This I for Daphnis burn, thus Daphnis burn away." DRYDEN.
"Thrice round the altar I the image draw."
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