| 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 lehte
...instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage flung in wild...coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels transported, as if by enchantment,... | |
| 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 lehte
...instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage flung in wild...coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels transported, as if by enchantment,... | |
| 1836 - 1184 lehte
...instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage flung in wild...coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels transported, as if by enchantment,... | |
| Ohio. General Assembly - 1836 - 174 lehte
...tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild, irregular profusion overy portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal black color of these vegetables with the light groundwork of the rock to which they are attached.... | |
| 1837 - 1822 lehte
...instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild...ground-work of the rock to which they are attached. Tlie spectator feels himself transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world;... | |
| 1837 - 1040 lehte
...instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild...of these vegetables with the light ground-work of the.rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels himself transported, as if by enchantment,... | |
| 1837 - 608 lehte
...which the galleries are overhung. ' The roof is covered with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched ' with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild...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 - 1838 - 372 lehte
...instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild...coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground- work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels transported, as if by enchantment,... | |
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 464 lehte
...tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, . * Silurian System, p. 100. VOL. ir. RR flung in wild irregular profusion over every portion...rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world ; he beholds trees of form and... | |
| Maria Hack - 1839 - 464 lehte
...the effect is heightened by the contrast of colour between the coal-black hue of the vegetable forms, with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels as if he were transported by enchantment into the forests of another world ; he beholds trees of forms... | |
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