 The most elaborate imitations of living foliage on 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 roof is covered...  Elements of Geology: Intended for the Use of Students - Sida 165efter Samuel St. John - 1851 - 334 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 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 - 1836 - 610 sidor
...Buckland — ' The most beautiful example I have ever witnessed is that of the coal mines of Bohemia. 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... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 sidor
...Buckland— ' The most beautiful example I have ever witnessed is that of the coal mines of Bohemia. 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... | |
 | 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 - 1836 - 606 sidor
...Buckland — * The most beautiful example I have ever witnessed is that of the coal mines of Bohemia. 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... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly - 1836 - 174 sidor
...fossil plants in 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... | |
 | 1837 - 608 sidor
...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... | |
 | Frederick John Francis - 1839 - 204 sidor
...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... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1839 - 830 sidor
...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... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - 1840 - 328 sidor
...description is too graphic to be omitted here. " 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... | |
 | 1842 - 496 sidor
...ever witnessed is that of Bohemia just mentioned. The most elaborate imitations of living foilage 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 a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons... | |
 | 1844 - 498 sidor
...Bucklaud thus writes: — "The most elaborate imitations of living louage upon the painted ttilingsof Italian palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous...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 u-etoons... | |
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