The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms, with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The Quarterly Review - Página 64editado por - 1836Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1837 - 1822 páginas
...that of the coal-mines of Bohemia just mentioned. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison...forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons... | |
| 1837
...that of the coal-mines of Bohemia just mentioned. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison...forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapeslry, enriched with festoons... | |
| William Buckland - 1837 - 476 páginas
...that of the coal mines of Bohemia just mentioned. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison...forms, with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons... | |
| 1837 - 1040 páginas
...The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear na comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct...forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons... | |
| 1837 - 608 páginas
...of distinctly preserved vegetable remains. ' The most elaborate ' imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian ' palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of ex' tinct vegetable forms by which the galleries are overhung. ' The roof is covered with a canopy... | |
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1838 - 388 páginas
...most interesting of any he had visited ; but I will describe them in his own eloquent language : — " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage on...forms, with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons... | |
| Alexander Keith - 1839 - 456 páginas
...Buckland, " is that of the coal-mines of Bohemia. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison...forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons... | |
| Edmund Ruffin - 1839 - 830 páginas
...living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison with the beautious profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the...coal mines are over-hung. The roof is covered as with i\ canopy of gorgeous tapeslry, enriched with festoons of most graceful li> liage, flung in wild irregular... | |
| Frederick John Francis - 1839 - 204 páginas
...most elaborate imitations," he says in a passage no less elegant than just, " of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetableforms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered... | |
| 1840 - 430 páginas
...speaking of the coal-mines of Bohemia, says, " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison...forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons... | |
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