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" ... of knowledge, clipped like one of the limes behind the Tuilleries, standing in the centre of the grand alley, the snake twined round it, the man on the right hand, the woman on the left, and the beasts drawn up in an exact circle round them. "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 553
1831
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...bricked and railed in — the ircc of knowledge, clipped like one of the limes behind the Tuileries, standing in the centre of the grand alley — the...squares are correct; the circles are correct; the max and woman are in a most correct nt *nh the tree ; and the snake forms a n.ssi correct spiral. But...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1856 - 752 pages
...clipped like one of the limes behind the Tuileries, standing in the centre of the grand alley—the snake twined round it—- the man on the right hand,...are correct; the circles are correct; the man and woman are in a most correct'.. lie with the tree; and the snake forms a n_ost correct spiral. But if...
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Modern Painters ...

John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1856 - 450 pages
...one of the limes behind the Tuileries, standing in the centre of the grand alley ; the snake turned round it, the man on the right hand, the woman on...the beasts drawn up in an exact circle round them." All this is perfectly true ; and seems in the description very curiously foolish. The only curious...
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Modern Painters ...

John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1856 - 452 pages
...one of the limes behind the Tuileries, standing in the centre of the grand alley ; the snake turned round it, the man on the right hand, the woman on...the beasts drawn up in an exact circle round them." All this is perfectly true ; and seems in the description very curiously foolish. The only curious...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...bricked and railed in — the tree 'of knowledge, clipped like one of the limes behind the Tuileries, ppiness, and its slavery to our freedom ! These are tie sq-iares are correct; the circles are correct; the mäh and woman are in a most correct . nc with the...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...bricked and railed in — the tree of knowledge, clipped like one of the limes behind the Tuileries, standing in the centre of the grand alley — the snake twined round lithe man on the right hand, the woman on the left, and the beasts drawn up in an exact circle round...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 820 pages
...bricked and railed in — the tree of knowledge, clipped like one of the limes behind the Tuileries, standing in the centre of the grand alley — the...the squares are correct; the circles are correct; th« maa and woman are in a most correct , ne with the tree ; and the snake forms a n.3st correct spiral....
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1861 - 752 pages
...bricked and railed in — the tree of knowledge, clipped like one of the limes behind the Tuileries, in sh maa and woman are in a most correct '.. lie vvilh the tree ; and the snake forms a most correct spiral....
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The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete: Critical and historical essays

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 pages
...bricked and railed in, the tree of knowledge, clipped like one of the limes behind the Tnilleries, standing in the centre of the grand alley, the snake...squares are correct ; the circles are correct ; the roan and the woman are in a most correct line with the tree ; and the snake forms a most correct spiral....
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Niagara Index, Volume 43

College student newspapers and periodicals - 1910 - 338 pages
...standing in the centre of the grand alley, the snake turned round it, the man on the right hand and the woman on the left, and the beasts drawn up in an exact circle around them." In one respect the picture is correct enough ; that is to say the squares are correct,...
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