 | 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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 - 610 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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
...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...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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 irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. 
