Note 56 — Chapter IV

Mr. Emlyn, of Windsor, who in 1782 published A Proposition for a New Order in Architecture, thus divides them: "The Doric was composed on the system of manly figure and strength, of robust and Herculean proportions; the Ionic, on the model of the easy, delicate, and simple graces of female beauty, to which the Corinthian on a similar design adapted a system of more artificial and complicated elegance."