The walls are prepared with a glossy paper of a silver-gray tint, spotted with small Arabesque devices of a fainter hue of the prevalent crimson. Many paintings relieve the expanse of the paper. These are chiefly landscapes of an imaginative cast —... The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Síða 174eftir Edgar Allan Poe - 1902Heildartexta - Um bókina
| 1840 - 326 síður
...the walls is of a glossy, silvery hue, intermingled with small Arabesque devices of a fainter tint of the prevalent crimson. Many paintings relieve the...grottoes of Stanfield, or the Lake of the Dismal Swamp of our own Chapman. The tone of each is warm but dark — there are no brilliant effects. Not one of the... | |
| William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1840 - 616 síður
...small Arabesque devices of a fainter tint of the prevalent crimson. Many paintings relieve the exparrse of the paper. These are chiefly landscapes of an imaginative...grottoes of Stanfield, or the Lake of the Dismal Swamp of our own Chapman. The tone of each is warm but dark — there are no brilliant effects. Not one of the... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 522 síður
...one occasionally overlaying the other. The walls are prepared with a glossy paper of a silver gray tint, spotted with small Arabesque devices of a fainter hue of the prevalent crimson. Many pairftings relieve the expanse of the paper. These are chiefly landscapes of an imaginative cast —... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1908 - 362 síður
...the same crimson ground, relieved simply by the appearance of a gold cord (like that festooning the curtains ) slightly relieved above the surface of...fainter hue of the prevalent crimson. Many paintings refieve the expanse of the paper. These are chiefly landscapes of an imaginative cast, such as the... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1975 - 1042 síður
...other. The walls are prepared with a glossy paper of a silver-gray tint, spotted with small Arahesque igation of the air in any direction (not exactly in...its influence, if requisite. Against a pretty stiff heauty — portraits in the manner of Sully. The tone of each picture is warm, but dark. There are... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - 2000 - 756 síður
...has no g . . . g forms (A) border. (A) "The walls are prepared with a glossy paper of a silver gray tint, spotted" with small Arabesque devices of a fainter...imaginative cast — such as the fairy grottoes of Stanfield,12 or the lake of the Dismal Swamp ofr Chapman.13 sThere are, nevertheless, three or four... | |
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