 | Ohio. General Assembly - 1836 - 174 páginas
...Bucklanq, 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... | |
 | 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 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 páginas
...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... | |
 | 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 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1837
...says, ' The finest example I have ever witnessed is that of the coal-mines of Bohemia just mentioned. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...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 páginas
...coal mines of Bohemia he observed the finest examples of distinctly preserved vegetable remains. ' The most elaborate ' imitations of living foliage...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... | |
 | 1837 - 1040 páginas
...says, ' The finest example I have ever witnessed is that of the coal-mines of Bohemia just mentioned. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear na comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 444 páginas
...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...tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, * Silurian System, p. 100. flung in wild irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The... | |
 | Frederick John Francis - 1839 - 204 páginas
...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...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 páginas
...will be continually bringing to light." In giving an account of the coal mines in" Bohemia he says, "the most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison with the beautious profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines... | |
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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. 
