 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1856 - 596 pages
...with lookingglass in regular forma, and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when a lamp of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster is...this grotto, by a narrow passage, two porches, one toward the river, of smooth stones, full of light and open ; the other toward the garden, shadowed... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - Poets, English - 1857 - 554 pages
...looking-glass in angular forms ; and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when a lamp (of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster)...place. " There are connected to this grotto, by a narrower passage, two porches : one towards the river, of smooth stones full of light, and open ; the... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - Poets, English - 1857 - 578 pages
...looking-glass in angular forms; and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when a lain n (of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster) is hung...the place. "There are connected to this grotto, by a narrower passage, two porches : one towards the river, 01 smooth stones fall of light, and open ; the... | |
 | William Dowling - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 412 pages
...with looking-glass in regular forms ; and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which when a lamp of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster is...pointed rays glitter, and are reflected over the place." A small part of his shrubberies, some of the trees he planted, and his once famous grotto, appear to... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...looking-glass in angular forms ; and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when a lamp (of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster)...the place. " There are connected to this grotto by a narrower passage two porches, one towards the river of smooth stones full of light and open ; the other... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1860 - 896 pages
...of lookingglass in angular forms; and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when a lamp (of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster)...the middle, a thousand pointed rays glitter, and are reflect«! over the place. There are connected to this grotto by a narrower passage two porches, one... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Great Britain - 1861 - 368 pages
...looking-glass in angular forms, and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when a lamp or orbicular figure of thin alabaster is hung in the...pointed rays glitter, and are reflected over the place." One cannot much wonder at the indifference, or perhaps disgust, that Martha Blount felt for a suitor... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1863 - 298 pages
...glitter and are reflected all over the place. There are connected with this grotto, by narrower passages, two porches, one towards the river, of smooth stones,...light and open, the other towards the garden, shadowed by trees and roughly paved with pebbles and shells ; as is also the adjoining walk up the wilderness... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1866 - 346 pages
...looking-glass, in angular forms ; and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which when a lamp (of an orbicular figure, of thin alabaster)...open ; the other towards the garden, shadowed with trces, rough with shells, flints, and iron ore. The bottom is paved with simple pebble, as is also... | |
 | Literature - 1871 - 690 pages
...looking-glass in angular forms ; and in the ceiling is a star of the same materials, at which when a lamp of orbicular figure, of thin alabaster, is hung in the...the place. There are connected to this grotto, by a narrower passage, two porches — one towards the river, of smooth stones, full of light, and open... | |
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It is finished with shells, interspersed with pieces of looking-glass in angular forms, and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when a lamp (of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster) is hung in the middle, a thousand pointed rays... 
