 | 1854 - 686 sivua
...white doilies, clustered in a long low pynimid of coloured light ; a treasure-heap it seems, partly of gold, and 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, clear as amber and... | |
 | 1853 - 1042 sivua
...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...amber and delicate as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering... | |
 | Ecclesiological society - 1853 - 942 sivua
...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-ofpearl, hollowed...amber and delicate as ivory,— sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm-leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering... | |
 | 1854 - 632 sivua
...white domes, clustered in a long low pyramid of coloured light ; a treasure-heap it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and motherof-pearl, hollowed...amber and delicate as ivory, — sculpture, fantastic and involved, of palm leaves, and lilies and grapes, and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1854 - 668 sivua
...coloured light; a treasure heap, it scorns, partly of gold and partly of opal and mothor of pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches,...amber and delicate as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm-leaves and lilies, and grapes, and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering... | |
 | Crystal palace - 1854 - 250 sivua
...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...amber and delicate as ivory ; sculpture fantastic and involved of palm leaves, and lilies, and grapes, and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering... | |
 | 1854 - 526 sivua
...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 as ivory — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering... | |
 | Rand - 1857 - 344 sivua
...white domes, clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light ; a treasureheap, it seems, partly of gold and partly of opal and mother-ofpearl, hollowed...amber and delicate as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm-leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1857 - 138 sivua
...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 sivua
...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...amber and delicate as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering... | |
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... 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,... 
