 | Early English newspapers - 1898 - 634 pages
...square, with a convenient bridge over each of the four rivers, the tree of knowledge in the centre, the man on the right hand, the woman on the left,...the beasts drawn up in an exact circle round them. The Man, swift to perceive a reality, stoutly argues in support of the tradition. The rivulets which... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1904 - 640 pages
...the limes behind the Tuileries, standing in the centre of the grand alley ; the snake turned around it, the man on the right hand, the woman on the left,...the beasts drawn up in an exact circle round them." l All this is perfectly true; and seems in the description very curiously foolish. The only curious... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, Thomas H. Dickinson - English essays - 1908 - 508 pages
...in, the tree of knowledge, clipped like one of the limes behind the Tuileries, standing in the center of the grand alley, the snake twined round it, the...beasts drawn up in an exact circle round them. In 15 one sense the picture is correct enough. That is to say, the squares are correct; the circles are... | |
 | Criticism - 1845 - 652 pages
...flowers ; a long canal neatly bricked and railed in ; the tree of knowledge standing in the center of the grand alley, the snake twined round it, the...are correct ; the circles are correct ; the man and woman are in a most correct line with the tree ; and the snake forms a most correct spiral." So if... | |
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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. 
