| 1854 - 686 pages
...we may sec it far away : a multitude of pillars and white doilies, clustered in a long low pynimid of coloured light ; a treasure-heap it seems, partly...mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great van I ted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster, clear as amber and... | |
| Ecclesiological society - 1853 - 942 pages
...and all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it far away ;—a multitude of pillars and white domes, clustered...fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster, clear as amber and delicate as ivory,— sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm-leaves and lilies,... | |
| John Ruskin - 1853 - 456 pages
...all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it far away ; — a multitude of pillars and white domes, clustered...fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster, clear as amber and delicate as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm leaves and lilies,... | |
| 1853 - 1042 pages
...all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it far away ; — a multitude of pillars and white domes clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light; a treasured heap, it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath... | |
| Charles Williams - 1854 - 668 pages
...and all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe that we may see it far away ; a multitude of pillars and white domes clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light; a treasure heap, it scorns, partly of gold and partly of opal and mothor of pearl, hollowed beneath into... | |
| Rand - 1857 - 344 pages
...all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it far away ; — a multitude of pillars and white domes, clustered...fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster, clear as amber and delicate as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm-leaves and lilies,... | |
| Robert Scott Burn - 1857 - 138 pages
...writer claims as the result of the proper contemplation of this wonderful structure. " A treasure heap it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster, clear as amber, and delicate... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 pages
...all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it far away ; — 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,... | |
| John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it far away;—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,... | |
| Samuel Manning - 1866 - 228 pages
...all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it far away ; — a multitude of pillars and white domes, clustered...fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster, clear as amber and delicate as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm leaves and lilies,... | |
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