 ... a multitude of pillars and white domes, clustered into a long low pyramid of colored 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,...  Modern English Prose - Página 28editado por - 1904 - 481 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | 1881
...and partly of opal and motherof-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster,...involved, of palm leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranate ; and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches all twined together into an endless... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1884 - 344 páginas
...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,...as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm-leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1884 - 202 páginas
...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,...as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm-leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1884 - 200 páginas
...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 Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 600 páginas
...and partly of opal and motherof-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster,...as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm-leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1886 - 188 páginas
...motherof-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and boset with sculpture of alabaster, clear as amber and delicate...as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm-leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranate?, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1886 - 188 páginas
...hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpt^ ure of alabaster, clear as amber and delicate as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm-leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches,... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1902 - 324 páginas
...partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into 145 five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster,...clinging and fluttering among the branches, all twined 150 together into an endless network of buds and plumes ; and, in the midst of it, the solemn forms... | |
 | Henry F. Euren - 1891 - 218 páginas
...sculpture and alabaster, clear as Stones of amber, delicate as ivory — sculpture fantastic Venice. and involved, of palm leaves, and lilies, and grapes,...birds clinging and fluttering among the branches, all turned together into an endless network of birds and plumes, and in the midst of it the solemn forms... | |
 | Clara Erskine Clement Waters - 1893 - 480 páginas
...and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into fine great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster,...as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm-leaves and lilies and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches,... | |
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