 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 610 pages
...Bohemia. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage on the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of...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... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly - Geological surveys - 1836 - 174 pages
...says; " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of...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... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 1184 pages
...Bohemia. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage on the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 606 pages
...Bohemia. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage on the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of...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
...mentioned. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of...overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapeslry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild irregular profusion over every... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...beauteous profusion of ex' tinct vegetable forms by which the galleries are overhung. ' The roof is covered with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched ' with...profusion over every portion of its surface.' . . . ' The ' spectator feels himself transported, as if by enchantment, into ' the forests of another world. He... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1839 - 464 pages
...language. " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage on the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of...tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, . * Silurian System, p. 100. VOL. ir. RR flung in wild irregular profusion over every portion of its... | |
 | Maria Hack - Geology - 1839 - 464 pages
...just that effect on Dr. Buckland, when he beheld the roofs of those galleries appearing like canopies of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild, irregular confusion over every part of the surface-. He says, and you may readily suppose it, the effect is heightened... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - Agriculture - 1839 - 830 pages
...living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison with the beautious profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are over-hung. The roof is covered as with i\ canopy of gorgeous tapeslry, enriched with... | |
 | 1840 - 430 pages
...says, " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of...in wild, irregular profusion over every portion of iti surface. The effect ia heightened by the contrast of the coal-blick colour of these vegetables... | |
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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. 
