 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 364 pages
...thousands of pilasters, all equal in height, distance, and degrees of light and shade. In a moment they bent into arcades, like Roman aqueducts. A long cornice was next formed at the top, and above it rose innumerable castles, all perfectly alike ; these again changed into towers,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 372 pages
...thousands of pilasters, all equal in height, distance, and degrees of light and shade. In a moment they bent into arcades, like Roman aqueducts. A long cornice was next formed at the top, and above it rose innumerable castles, all perfectly alike ; these again changed into towers,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1842 - 364 pages
...thousands of pilasters, all equal in height, distance, and degrees of light and shade.. In a moment they bent into arcades, like Roman aqueducts. A long cornice was next formed at the top, and above it rose innumerable castles, all perfectly alike ; these again changed into towers,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1844 - 370 pages
...thousands of pilasters, all equal in height, distance, and degrees of light and shade. In a moment they bent into arcades, like Roman aqueducts. A long cornice was next formed at the top, and above it rose innumerable castles, all perfectly alike ; these again changed into towers,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1843 - 374 pages
...thousands of pilasters, all equal in height, distance, and degrees of light and shade. In a moment they bent into arcades, like Roman aqueducts. A long cornice was next formed at the top, and above it rose innumerable castles, all perfectly alike ; these again changed into towers,... | |
 | David Purdie Thomson - Meteorology - 1849 - 516 pages
...chiaro-scuro, a string of several thousand pilasters, all equal in altitude, distance, and degree of light and shade. In a moment they lost half their height, and bent into grades like Roman aqueducts. A long cornice was next formed upon the top, and above it rose innumerable... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1852 - 682 pages
...thousands of pilasters, all equal in height, distance, and degrees of light and shade. In a moment they bent into arcades, like Roman aqueducts. A long cornice was next formed at the top, and above it rose innumerable castles, all perfectly alike ; these again changed Into towers,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1853 - 666 pages
...thousands of pilasters, all equal in height, distance, and degrees of light and shade. In a moment they bent into arcades, like Roman aqueducts. A long cornice was next formed at the top, and above it rose innumerable castles, all perfectly alike ; these again changed into towers,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - Poetry - 1855 - 620 pages
...funned at the top, and above it rose innumerable castles, all perfectly alike; these again changed into towers, which were shortly after lost in colonnades,...at last ended in pines, cypresses and other trees." — Sicinburne's Trarcls in the Two Sicilies Note 34, page 165, col. 2. Holy the amaranth strewed upon... | |
 | World - 1868 - 528 pages
...chiaroscuro, a string of several thousands of pilasters, all equal in altitude, distance, and degree of light and shade. In a moment they lost half their height,...towers, which were shortly after lost in colonnades, and, at last, ended in pirfcs, cypresses, and other trees, even and similar. This was the Fata Morgana,... | |
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On this glass was depicted, in chiaroscuro, a string of several thousands of pilasters, all equal in altitude, distance, and degree of light and shade. In a moment they lost half their height, and bent into arcades .like Roman aqueducts. A long cornice... 
