... 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
| Frank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin - 1914 - 690 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, — sculptures fantastic and involved, of palm leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and... | |
| Francis Whiting Halsey - 1914 - 262 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 •From "The Stones of Venice." St. Mark's Is merely a church. It Is not a cathedral; that Is, It Is... | |
| 1916 - 792 páginas
...and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with 's near.' xcvm From you have I been absent in the...thing, That2 heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. plumA ; and, in the midst of it, the solemn forms of angels, sceptred, and robed to the feet, and leaning... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 924 páginas
...and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with - @ - @ - [300 the branches, all twined together into an endless network of buds and plumes: and, in the midst... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 páginas
...partly of opal and mothcr-of-jx'arl, 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 ]x>megranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among [390 the branches, all twined together into... | |
| Paul Edward Kretzmann - 1921 - 444 páginas
...gold, 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,... | |
| Marjorie Hope Nicolson - 1925 - 472 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, sceptered, and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other across the gates, their figures indiscreet... | |
| William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 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,...lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging .15 and fluttering among the branches, all twined together into an endless network of buds and plumes... | |
| John Ruskin - 1925 - 468 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,... | |
| Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 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,...endless network of buds and plumes; and in the midst of it,-the solemn forms of angels, sceptred, and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other across the... | |
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