 On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants : these, from little dusky flies, for such only the nake'd eye would have shown them, were raised to glorious glittering...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Seite 411821Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 446 Seiten
...parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants...dusky flies, for such only the naked eye would have shewn them, were raised to glorious glittering animals, stained with living purple, and with a glossy... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1818 - 594 Seiten
...parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottom of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants...and with a glossy gold that would have made all the labors of the loom contemptible in comparison. — I could at leisure, as they walked together, admire... | |
 | 1840 - 520 Seiten
...walks, parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottom of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants...raised to glorious glittering animals, stained with lively purple, and with a glossy gold, that would have made all the labours of the loom contemptible... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 Seiten
...parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants;...dusky flies, (for such only the naked eye would have shewn them,) were raised to glorious glittering animals, stained with living purple, and with a glossy... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 Seiten
...parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants...to glorious glittering animals, stained with living purpie, and with a glossy gold that would have made all the labours of the loom contemptible in the... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1828 - 362 Seiten
...parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants ; these from little dusky dies, for such only the naked eye would have shown them, were raised to glorious glittering animals,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1829 - 414 Seiten
...parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants...for such only the naked eye would have shown them, wero faised to glorious glittering animals, stained with living purple, and with a glossy gold, that... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 350 Seiten
...parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants ; these from little dusky flies, for euch only the naked eye would have shown them, were raised to glorious glittering animals, stained... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 Seiten
...ornaments ; and the narrow spaces between were enlarged into walks, parterres, and terraces. 779 78J pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants...and with a glossy gold that would have made all the labors of the loom contemptible in the comparison. I could, at leisure, as they walked together, admire... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 Seiten
...parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottom of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants...these from little dusky flies, for such only the naked eje would have shown them, were raised to glorious glittering animals, stained with living purple,... | |
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