 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1864 - 600 pages
...in solemn hierarchy over a whole page ; oftener, and truer to their name, they nestle in the spaces of initials, or capital letters, and in the medallions...intricate borders. Now they look upon us with the forms, costumes, and even the countenances as of another world ; then again they claim affinity by some touch... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson - 1864 - 466 pages
...in solemn hierarchy over a whole page; oftener, and truer to their name, they nestle in the spaces of initials, or capital letters, and in the medallions...intricate borders. Now they look upon us with the forms, costumes, and even the countenances as of another world ; then again they claim affinity by some touch... | |
 | English literature - 1864 - 610 pages
...in solemn hierarchy over a whole page ; oftener, and truer to their name, they nestle in the spaces of initials, or capital letters, and in the medallions...intricate borders. Now they look upon us with the forms, costumes, and even the countenances as of another world ; then again they claim affinity by some touch... | |
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... the text itself a picture, the picture a homily — the skill of the artist has exhausted itself in setting forth in positive images the great scheme of salvation. Sometimes these miniatures spread in solemn hierarchy over a whole page; oftener, and... 