 River passing suddenly and vanishing, as thro' a Perspective Glass. When you shut the Doors of this Grotto, it becomes on the instant, from a luminous Room, a Camera obscura ; on the Walls of which all the objects of the River, Hills, Woods, and Boats,...  London and Middlesex, Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive Survey of ... - Pàgina 393per Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1816Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Owen - 1811 - 416 pàgines
...the walls of which, all objects of the river, hills, woods and boats, are forming a moving picture in their visible radiations: and when you have a mind...which, when a lamp (of an orbicular figure, of thin alabastar) is hung in the middle, a thousand pointed rays glitter, and are reflected over live place.... | |
 | William Bernard Cooke - 1811 - 324 pàgines
...river, hills, woods and boats, are forming a moving picture in their visible radiations : and when yon have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very...looking-glass, in angular forms ; and in the ceiling is ft star of the same material ; at which, when a lamp (of an orbicular figure, of thin alabastar) is... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 318 pàgines
...walls of which all the objects of the river, hii.'.;, woods, and boats, are forming a moving picture in their visible radiations : and when you have a mind...of the same material, at which, when a lamp (of an orhicular figure of thin alahaster) is hung in the middle, a thousand pointed rays glitter, and are... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 pàgines
...wall of which all the objects of the river, hills, woods, and boats are forming a moving picture in their visible radiations ; and, when you have a mind...angular forms, and in the ceiling is a star of the same materials ; at which, when a lamp of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster is hung in the middle, a... | |
 | John Britton - 1816 - 944 pàgines
...and boats, are forming a moving picture in * Warburton's Edition »f Pope'i Works, Vol. VI. p. 63. their visible radiations : and when you have a mind...scene : it is finished with shells interspersed with pieres of looking glass, in angular forms; and in the ceiling is a star of the same material : at which,... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pàgines
...walls of which all the objects of the river, hills, Woods and boats, are forming a moving picture in their visible radiations ! And when you have a mind...shells, interspersed with pieces of looking-glass, in regular forms ; and in the cieling is a star, of the same material, at which, when a lamp (of an orbicular... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 406 pàgines
...walls of which all the objects of the river, hills, woods, and boats, are forming a moving picture in their visible radiations; and when you have a mind...interspersed with pieces of looking-glass in angular 7 I wish he had made a full description of his garden and grounds, as Horace has done in his sixteenth... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 424 pàgines
...walls of which all the objects of the river, hills, woods, and boats, are forming a moving picture in their visible radiations; and when you have a mind...interspersed with pieces of looking-glass in angular 7 I wish he had made a full description of his garden and grounds, as Horace has done in his sixteenth... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pàgines
...walls of which all the objects of the river, hills, woods, and boats, are forming a moving picture, in their visible radiations; and when you have a mind...shells, interspersed with pieces of looking-glass, in regular forms, and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when * This circumstance,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 694 pàgines
...walls of which all the objects of the river, hills, woods, and boats, are forming a moving picture, in their visible radiations; and when you have a mind...shells, interspersed with pieces of looking-glass, in regular forms, and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when * This circumstance,... | |
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