 ... a multitude of pillars and white domes, clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light; a treasure-heap, it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic,...  The North British Review - Página 731854Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | John Ruskin - 1898 - 224 páginas
...seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture...sceptred, and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other across the gates, their figures indistinct among the gleaming of the golden ground through the leaves... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1898 - 436 páginas
...seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture...sceptred, and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other across the gates, their figures indistinct among the gleaming of the golden ground through the leaves... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1898 - 218 páginas
...seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture...sceptred, and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other across the gates, their figures indistinct among the gleaming of the golden ground through the leaves... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1898 - 424 páginas
...seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture...sceptred, and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other across the gates, their figures indistinct among ; the gleaming of the golden ground through the leaves... | |
 | Gertrude Buck, Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - 1899 - 312 páginas
...seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster, clear as amber and delicate as ivory,—sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates,... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner - 1900 - 520 páginas
...seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture...as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm-leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches,... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1900 - 616 páginas
...seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture...of alabaster, clear as amber and delicate as ivory. — RUSKIN : The Stones of Venice. [St. Mark's Cathedral.] 8. First, to cite several striking examples,... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner - 1901 - 534 páginas
...alabaster, clear as amber and delicate as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm-leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds...into an endless network of buds and plumes ; and, iu the midst of it, the solemn forms of angels, sceptred, and robed to the feet, and leaning to each... | |
 | Percy Leslie Waterhouse - 1901 - 232 páginas
...seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture...of alabaster, clear as amber and delicate as ivory. And round the walls of the porches there are set pillars of variegated stones, jasper and porphyry,... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1902 - 238 páginas
...domes; a treasure-heap, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl; and five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture...of alabaster, clear as amber and delicate as ivory. True ! it is all overcharged like a banquet scene by Rubens ! But how vividly is it seen ; how deeply... | |
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