 | 1854 - 686 pages
...multitude of pillars and 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 pages
...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,...as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches,... | |
 | 1854 - 632 pages
...multitude of pillars and 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,...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 pages
...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...delicate as ivory ; sculpture fantastic and involved of palm leaves, and lilies, and grapes, and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the... | |
 | 1854 - 526 pages
...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 among the branches,... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - Advertising - 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 - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...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...as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches,... | |
 | Samuel Manning - Switzerland - 1866 - 228 pages
...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,...as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering in ra ij , .... | |
 | Samuel Manning - Switzerland - 1866 - 228 pages
...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,...as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering THE SIMPLON... | |
 | 1866 - 950 pages
...treasure heap of gold and opal and mother of pearl. He said, underneath it was hollowed into five great porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture...clear as amber and delicate as ivory — sculpture of palm leaves and lilies, grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches,... | |
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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,... 
