 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 with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these...  The penny cyclopædia [ed. by G. Long]. - Pagina 316door Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1837Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 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 - 608 pagina’s
...witnessed is that of the coal mines of Bohemia. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage on 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... | |
 | Ohio. Geologist - 1836 - 498 pagina’s
...Buckland, in speaking of the splendid exhibitions of fossil plants in the coal mines of Bohemia, says: " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...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... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1836 - 956 pagina’s
...witnessed is that of the coal mines of Bohemia. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage on the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison...forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is cgvcrcd as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons... | |
 | William Buckland - 1837 - 476 pagina’s
...Coal fields of Great Britain. But the finest example I have ever witnessed, is that of the coal mines of Bohemia just mentioned. The most elaborate imitations...galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. 1 The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful... | |
 | Frederick John Francis - 1839 - 204 pagina’s
...were embellished. " The most elaborate imitations," he says in a passage no less elegant than just, " of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian...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... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 444 pagina’s
...will describe them in his own eloquent language. " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage on the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison...coal-mines are overhung. The roof is .covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, * Silurian System,... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 464 pagina’s
...will describe them in his own eloquent language. " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage on the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison...coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, * Silurian System,... | |
 | John Adams Dix - 1839 - 80 pagina’s
...finest example [of vegetable remains] I have ever witnessed, is that of the coal mines of Bohemia. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...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... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1840 - 460 pagina’s
...instrucliveand beautiful, to be found in the whole range of science. He speaks as an eyewitness. " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage, upon...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... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1840 - 440 pagina’s
...Htttamr tive and beautiful, to be found in the whole range of science. He speaks as an eyewitness. " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage, upon...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... | |
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