 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 ... - Pągina 393per Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1816Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Francis Halsey - 2006 - 205 pągines
...affords you a very different scene, It is finished with shells, interspersed with lookingglass in regular forms, and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at wMeh, when a lamp of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster is bong in the middle, a thousand pointed... | |
 | Leslie Umberger, John Michael Kohler Arts Center - 2007 - 440 pągines
...the walls of which the objects of the River, Hills, Woods, and Boats a re forming a moving picture in their visible Radiations: And when you have a mind...interspersed with pieces of Looking-glass in angular forms; . . . when a lamp . ..is hung in the Middle, a thousand pointed Rays glitter and are reflected over... | |
 | Ana-Stanca Tabarasi - 2007 - 516 pągines
...the Walls of which the objects of the River, Hills, Woods, and Boats, are forming a moving Picture in their visible Radiations. And when you have a mind...a very different scene; it is finished with Shells mterspersed with Pieces of Looking-glass in angular forms; and in the Ceiling is a Star of the same... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1870 - 874 pągines
...the walls of which all objects of the river, hills, woods and bouts are forming a moving picture in their visible radiations ; and when you have a mind...lookingglass in angular forms; and in the ceiling i« a star of the same material, at which when a lamp (of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster) is... | |
 | 1842 - 882 pągines
...walls of which all the objects of the river, bills, woods and boats, are forming а moveable picture in their visible radiations ; and when you have a mind...finished with shells, interspersed with pieces of looking glass in angular forms, and in the ceiling is a star of the same material; at which, when a... | |
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