 | 1875 - 660 Seiten
...golden letters from Altar to vestibule. No words but Mr. Buskin's will do to describe the exterior. '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... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1876 - 556 Seiten
...goodly sculpture, and fluted shafts of delicate stone. " And well may they fall back, for beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises a vision out...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... | |
 | Maria Welch Harris, H. D. Rumsey - 1876 - 284 Seiten
...every day adds to its glory, until our eyes are dazzled and our senses bewildered. " A vision rises out of the earth, and all the great square seems to...pillars and white domes, clustered into a long low pyrairid of colored light ; a treasure-heap, it seems, partly of gold and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl,... | |
 | A. C. Owen - 1876 - 522 Seiten
...golden letters from altar to vestibule. No words but Mr. Ruskin's will do to describe the exterior. "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... | |
 | A. C. Owen - 1876 - 520 Seiten
...golden letters from altar to vestibule. No words but Mr. Ruskin's will do to describe the exterior. " 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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1879 - 348 Seiten
...sculpture, and fluted shafts of delicate stone. § XIV. 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 seerns to have opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it far away;—a multitude of pillars... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1880 - 230 Seiten
...sculpture, and fluted shafts of delicate stone. § vm. And well may they fall back, for beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises a vision out...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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1880 - 456 Seiten
...xiv. And well may they fall back, for beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises a vision otit of the earth, and all the great square seems to have...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,... | |
 | Europe - 1881 - 364 Seiten
...Mark's, for a master hand has done it, and I shall not scruple to use his words: — "Beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises a vision out...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... | |
 | George Hart - 1881 - 552 Seiten
...reminds us of Ruskin's verbal harmonies in which the wondrous building is likened unto a vision rising out of the earth, " and all the great square seems...clustered into a long, low pyramid of coloured light ; a treasure heap, it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-o' -pearl, hollowed beneath... | |
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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... 
