 ... a multitude of pillars and white domes, clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured 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,...  The North British Review - Página 731854Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Henry Allon - 1853 - 628 páginas
...branches, all turned together into an endless network of buds and plumes, and iu tho midst of it tko solemn forms of angels, sceptred and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other across the gates, their figures indistinct among the gleaming of the golden ground through the leaves... | |
 | 1853 - 1042 páginas
...seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture...sceptred, and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other across the gates, their figures indistinct among the gleaming of the golden ground through the leaves... | |
 | 1853 - 512 páginas
...alabaster, clear as amber and delicate as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm-leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds...forms of angels, sceptred, and robed to the feet, aud leaning to each other across the gates, their figures indistinct among the gleaming of the golden... | |
 | Ecclesiological society - 1853 - 942 páginas
...seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-ofpearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture...as ivory,— sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm-leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches,... | |
 | Crystal palace - 1854 - 250 páginas
...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...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...seems, partly of gold and partly of opal and mother of pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...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 páginas
...seems, partly of gold and partly of opal and mother-ofpearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture...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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