 ... 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 - Seite 28herausgegeben von - 1904 - 481 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1854 - 686 Seiten
...partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great van I ted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster,...sceptred and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other acioss the gates, their figures indistinct among the gleaming of the golden ground through the leaves... | |
 | 1853 - 512 Seiten
...and partly of opal and mother-ofpearl, 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,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1854 - 520 Seiten
...pyramid of coloured light, a seeming treasure-heap of gold, and opal, and mother-of-pearl, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster,...of angels, sceptred and robed to the feet ; — and round ' the walls of the porches, pillars of jasper and porphyry and deep-green serpentine spotted... | |
 | 1854 - 632 Seiten
...and partly of opal and motherof-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with, sculpture of alabaster,...plumes, and in the midst of it, the solemn forms of ungels, sceptred and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other across the gates, their figures indistinct... | |
 | Crystal palace - 1854 - 250 Seiten
...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,...branches, all twined together into an endless network of birds and plumes; in the midst of it the solemn forms of angels, sceptred and robed to the feet, and... | |
 | 1854 - 526 Seiten
...a seeming treasure-heap of gold, and opnl, und mother-of-pearl, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beser. with sculpture of alabaster, clear as amber and delicate...fluttering among the branches, all twined together into an eiulless network of buds and plumes; and, in the midst of it, the solemn forms of angels, sceptred... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1854 - 662 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1854 - 668 Seiten
...lilies, and grapes, and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches, all t\vi led together into an endless network of buds and plumes; and, in the midst of it, the solemn forms of angc-ls, sceptercd and robed to the i'cet, and leaning to each other across the gates, their figures... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1857 - 138 Seiten
...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,...fluttering among the branches, all twined together in one endless network of birds and plants. In the midst of it the solemn forms of angels, sceptred,... | |
 | Rand - 1857 - 344 Seiten
...and partly of opal and mother-ofpearl, 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,... | |
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