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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. "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 553
1831
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

1835 - 932 pages
...bricked and railed in — the tree of knowledge, clipped like one of the limes behind theTuillcries, standing in the centre of the grand alley — the...the picture is correct enough. That is to say, the squaresare correct; the circles are correct ; the man and the woman are in a most correct line with...
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Selections from the Edinburgh Review: Comprising the Best Articles in that ...

Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...bricked and railed in— the tree oí knowledge, clipped like one of the limes behind theTuillenes, standing in the centre of the grand alley— the snake twined round it— the man on tlntight hand, the woman on the left, and the beasts drawn up in an exact circle round them. In one...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...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...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. But if...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 3

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 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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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...limes behind the Tuileries, 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...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. But if there...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...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...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. But if there...
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The Modern British Essayists: Macaulay, T.B. Essays

English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...bricked and railed in — the tree of knowledge, clipped like one of the limes behind the Tuileries, es high and noble, his eye fall of fire. His voice,...whisper, was heard to the remotest benches ; when woman are in a most correct line with the tree; and the snake forms a most correct spiral. But if there...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...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...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. But if there...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 37

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1855 - 670 pages
...neatly bricked and railed in, the tree of knowledge, clipped like one of the limes behind the Tuilerie^ standing in the centre of the grand alley, the snake...the beasts drawn up in an exact circle round them — an exquisite ensemble of "correctness" — the squares being correct, the circles correct, the...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 35

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 590 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...round it, the man on the right hand, the woman on the Mt, and the beasts drawn up in an exact circle round them — an exquisite ensemble of "correctness"...
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