 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 752 pages
...cornice was next formed on the top, and above it rose castles innumerable, all perfectly alike. These soon split into towers, which were shortly after lost...is the fata morgana, which for twenty-six years I had thought a mere fable." To produce this pleasing deception, many circumstances most concur which... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 700 pages
...cornice was next formed on the top, and above it rose castles innumerable, all perfectly alike. These soon split into towers, which were shortly after lost...is the fata morgana, which for twenty-six years I liad thought a mere fable." To produce this pleasing deception, many circumstances must concur which... | |
 | C T. Watkins - 1810 - 1056 pages
...innumerable, all perfectly alike. These MOD split into towers, which were shortly after lost in colonnade*, then windows, and at last ended in pines, cypresses, and other trees, even and similar. Thi" is the Fata Morgana, which for twenty-si* yeais 1 had thought a mere fable." To produce this deception,... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 474 pages
...cornice was next formed on the top, and above it rose castles innumerable, all perfectly alike. These soon split into towers, which were shortly after lost...is the Fata Morgana, which for twenty-six years I had thought a mere fable." FATHER, in church history, is applied to antient authors who have preserved... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 962 pages
...cornice was next formed on the top, and above it rose castles innumerable, all perfectly alike. These soon split into towers, which were shortly after lost...even and similar. This is the Fata Morgana, which tor twenty-six years I bad thought a mere fable." FATHER, in church history, is applied to autient... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 588 pages
...cornice was next formed on the top, and above it rose castles innumerable, all per. 'fectly alike. These soon split into towers, which were shortly after lost...cypresses, and other trees, even and similar. This was the Fata Morgana, which, for twenty.six years, I had thought a mere fable." To produce this pleasing... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 628 pages
...cornice was next formed on the top, and above it rose castles innumerable, all per. fectly alike. These soon split into towers, which were shortly after lost in colonnades, then windows, aud at last ended in pities, cypresses, and other trees, even and similar. This was the Fata Morgana,... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 408 pages
...cornice was next formed on the top, and above it rose castles innumerable, all perfectly alike. These soon split into towers, which were shortly after lost...is the fata morgana, which for twenty-six years I have thought a mere fable." To produce this pleasing deception, many circumstances must concur, which... | |
 | Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts - 1816 - 604 pages
...cornice was next formed on the top, and above it, rose castles innumerable, all perfectly alike. These soon split into towers, which were shortly after lost...even and similar. This is the Fata Morgana, which for 26 years I had thought a mere fable." " To produce this pleasing deception, many circumstances must... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 592 pages
...cornice was next formed on the top, and above it rose castles innumerable, all perfectly alike. These soon split into towers, which were shortly after lost...cypresses, and other trees, even and similar. This was the Fata Morgana, which, for twenty-six years, I had thought a mere fable.'To produce this pleasing... | |
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... 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 was next formed on the top, and above it rose castles... 
