 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1872 - 418 pages
...behind the Tuileries, standing in the centre of the grand alley ; the snake turned round it, the man ori the right hand, the woman on the left, and 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1873 - 1090 pages
...resembles the correctness of those pictures of the garden of Eden which we see in old Bibles. We have an exact square, enclosed by the rivers Pison, Gihon,...correct enough. That is to say, the squares are correct ; ihe circles are correct ; the man and the woman are in a most correct line with the tree ; and the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 pages
...neatly 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...picture is correct enough. That is to say, the squares arc correct; the circles are correct; the man and the woman are in a most correct line with the tree... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1875 - 876 pages
...neatly bricked and railed in, the tree of knowledge clipped like one of the limes behind the Tuillcries, standing in the centre of the grand alley, the snake...up in an exact circle round them. In one sense the pictnre is correct enough. That is to say, the squares are correct ; the circles are correct; the man... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...resembles the correctness of those pictures of the garden of Eden which we see in old Bibles. We have an exact square, enclosed by the rivers Pison, Gihon,...correct; the man and the woman are in a most correct line wilh the tree; and the snake forms a most correct spiral. But if there were a painter so gifted that... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1877 - 898 pages
...garden of Eden which we see in old Bibles. We have an exact square enclosed by the rivers Pison, Qihon, Hiddekel, and Euphrates, each with a convenient bridge...hand, the woman on the left, and the beasts drawn uj) in an exact circle round them. In one sense the picture is correct enough. That is to say, the... | |
 | James De Mille - English language - 1878 - 618 pages
...the limes behind the Tuileries, standing in the centre of the grand alley ; one snake twined around it ; the man on the right hand ; the woman on the left ; and the beasts drawn up in an exact cnxle around them. In one sense the picture is correct enough. That is to say, the squares are correct,... | |
 | James De Mille - English language - 1878 - 584 pages
...Tuileries, standing in the centre of the grand alley ; one snake twined around it ; the man on the richt hand ; the woman on the left ; and the beasts drawn up in an exact Circle around them. In one sense the picture is correct enough. That is to say, the squares are correct, the... | |
 | English dictation - 1881 - 156 pages
...neatly 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...them. In one sense the picture is correct enough. The squares are correct ; the circles are correct ; the man and the woman are in a most correct line... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1882 - 878 pages
...neatly 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..., the circles are correct ; the man and the woman ure ,i. a most correct line with the tree ; and the snake forms a most correct spiral. But if there... | |
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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. 
