 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1860 - 388 Seiten
...coal mines, says : " The finest example I have ever witnessed is that of the coal mines of Bohemia. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison wi th the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 Seiten
...little change at all excepting that of colour. Dr. Buckland remarks of the Bohemian coal mines : — " 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... | |
 | H. H. B., H. H. BURKE - 1861 - 338 Seiten
...of the beautiful foliage which is to be seen in the coal measures of Bohemia, Dr Buckland says, that "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... | |
 | Home tutor - 1862 - 532 Seiten
...it. He says : — " The finest example I have ever witnessed is that of the coal mines of Bohemia. 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... | |
 | Zachary James Edwards - 1862 - 148 Seiten
...Treatise observes " The finest example I have ever witnessed is that of the coal mines of Bohemia. 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... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 394 Seiten
...forests. He says : — " The finest example I have ever witnessed is that of the coal-mines of Bohemia. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, have no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1866 - 578 Seiten
...most interesting of any he has visited, — but I will describe them in his own eloquent language. " 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... | |
 | Paul Ansel Chadbourne - 1867 - 332 Seiten
...graphic account of the rich profusion of beauty in the petrified plants of the Bohemian coal-mines. " 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... | |
 | William Jones (F.S.A.) - 1868 - 360 Seiten
...vegetable remains, " The finest example I have ever witnessed is that of the coal mines of Bohemia. 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... | |
 | John Brocklesby - 1868 - 176 Seiten
...extremely interesting and instructive. Dr. Buckland remarks, in speaking of the coal mines of Bohemia, that the most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of the Italian palaces cannot compare with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms which overhang... | |
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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 instructive coal mines are overhung. 
