...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...

...hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic and beset with scu'.ptures 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,...

...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 ivoiy, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates,...

...colored light ; * * * hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic and set with sculpture of alabaster clear as amber and delicate...fluttering among the branches, all twined together, and in the midst of it the solemn forms of angels, sceptred and robed to the feet : * * * And round...

...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,...fluttering among the branches, all twined together inte an endless network of buds and plumes; and, in the midst of it, the solemn forms of angels, sceptred,...

...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 5 palm-leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the...

...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...the feet and leaning to each other across the gates. And round the walls of the porches there are set pillars of variegated stones, jasper and porphyry,...

...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,...branches, all twined together into an endless network of birds and plumes." It would, perhaps, be confusing to quote further, but even this gives one an idea...

...had been transformed into arches charged with goodly sculpture, and fluted shafts of delicate stone. 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...

...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,...