 | 1854 - 686 pagine
...we may sec it far away : a multitude of pillars and white doilies, clustered in a long low pynimid of coloured light ; a treasure-heap it seems, partly...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 pagine
...all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it far away ; — a 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, hollowed beneath... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1854 - 668 pagine
...and all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe that we may see it far away ; a multitude of pillars and white domes clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light; a treasure heap, it scorns, partly of gold and partly of opal and mothor of pearl, hollowed beneath into... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1857 - 138 pagine
...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 - 1859 - 504 pagine
...all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it far away ; — 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,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pagine
...all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it far away;—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,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1867 - 458 pagine
...all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it far away; — 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,... | |
 | George Henry Duncan Mathias - 1867 - 292 pagine
...and all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it far away ; a multitude of pillars and white domes, clustered into a long low pyramid of colored light, a treasure-keep, it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pagine
...all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it far away; — a multitude of pillars and white domes, clustered...gold, and partly of opal and mother-ofpearl, hollowed benesth into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pagine
...and all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it far away ; a multitude of pillars and white domes, clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light; a treasure heap, it seems, partly cf gold, and partly of opal and mother of pearl, hollowed beneath into... | |
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And well may they fall back, for beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises a vision out of the earth, and all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe... 
