 ... 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
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 478 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,...birds clinging and fluttering among the branches, all tjsirfed together into an endless network of buds and plum^f ; and, in the midst of it, the solemn... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1896 - 322 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,... | |
 | 1896 - 756 páginas
...and partly of opal and mother-ofpearl, 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, all twined together into an endless network of... | |
 | Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society - 1897 - 290 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,...delicate as ivory — sculpture fantastic and involved of palm-leaves and lilies and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches,... | |
 | Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society - 1897 - 286 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, and... | |
 | Gertrude Buck, Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - 1899 - 312 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 Hays Gardiner - 1900 - 520 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,... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1900 - 620 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. — 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
...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,... | |
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