| John Gibson Lockhart - 1820 - 532 páginas
...has contributed a variety of poems, chiefly ludicrous, to the pages of the New Miscellany ; so tli.ii he is of course a mighty favourite with the proprietor,...shop, has a very imposing effect ; for it is carried hack, room after room, through various gradaiions of light and shadow, till the eye cannot trace distinctly... | |
| Wilmot Harrison - 1893 - 144 páginas
...possible, Princes Street to the High Street what the other has made Albemarle Street to the Row .... The length of vista presented to one on entering the...gradations of light and shadow, till the eye cannot see distinctly the outline of any object in the furthest distance. First there is, as usual, a special... | |
| John Hepburn Millar - 1903 - 736 páginas
...description of the saloon and its master in Peter's Letters will bear reproduction once again : — " The length of vista presented to one on entering the...; for it is carried back, room after room, through the various gradations of light and shadow, till the eye cannot trace distinctly the outline of any... | |
| Alfred H. Hyatt - 1913 - 492 páginas
...could not have made my introduction under better auspices than his. The length of vista presented to me on entering the shop has a very imposing effect, for...gradations of light and shadow, till the eye cannot distinctly trace the outline of any object in the farthest distance. First there is, as usual, a spacious... | |
| Ralph Lownie - 2004 - 348 páginas
...have made my introduction under better auspices than his . . . The length of vista presented to me on entering the shop has a very imposing effect, for...gradations of light and shadow, till the eye cannot distinctly trace the outline of any object in the farthest distance. First there is, as usual, a spacious... | |
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