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" And well may they fall back, for beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises a vision out of the earth, and all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe... "
Venetia and Northern Italy: Being the Story of Venice, Lombardy & Emilia - Page 268
by Cecil Headlam - 1908 - 347 pages
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The North British Review, Volumes 20-21

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...
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The Ecclesiologist

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,...
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The Stones of Venice: The sea-stories

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,...
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Eclectic and Congregational Review

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...
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The Alps, Switzerland and the North of Italy: With Numerous Engravings

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...
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The Sydenham Sindbad [by - Rand].

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,...
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Ornamental Drawing, and Architectural Design: With Notes, Historical and ...

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...
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The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion: Selected ...

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,...
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The True and the Beautiful: In Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion

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,...
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Swiss Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil

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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