... 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
| M. Christine Boyer - 1994 - 580 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,...palm leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates. . . . Between that grim cathedral of England and this, what an interval!69 Traveling, visiting museums,... | |
| Hugh Honour - 1997 - 324 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.' Along the roof line 'as if in ecstasy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam, and toss... | |
| Michael Wheeler - 1999 - 330 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,...and in the midst of it, the solemn forms of angels . . . And round the walls of the porches there are set pillars of variegated stones, jasper and porphyry,... | |
| Sarah Quill - 2000 - 216 páginas
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| David Watkin - 2000 - 710 páginas
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| Martin Garrett - 2001 - 260 páginas
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| Robert S. Nelson - 2004 - 316 páginas
...west facade. Copyright Alinari/Art Resource, NY. neath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster,...and involved, of palm leaves and lilies . . . , and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches, all twined together into an endless network of buds... | |
| David Watkin - 2005 - 722 páginas
...coloured light; a treasure-heap, it seems, 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 oooo twined together into an endless network of buds and plumes . . . and above these, another range... | |
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