 The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, incrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labor of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and density, suspended...  Irvings̓ Sketch Book - الصفحة 142بواسطة Washington Irving - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 417عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...as if proudly reluctant to admit the feet of common mortals into this most gorgeous of sepulchres. On entering, the eye is astonished by the pomp of...The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, encrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...if proudly reluctant to admit the feet of common mortals into this most gorgeous of sepulchres. • On entering, the eye is astonished by the pomp of...The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, encrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 218
...adorned with a profusion of embroidery. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, (says Irving,) to have been robbed of its weight and density, suspended...fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cob-web. In this chapel are the stalls of the Knights of the Bath, richly carved... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 804
...as if proudly reluctant to admit the feet of common mortals into this most gorgeous of sepulchres. On entering, the eye is astonished by the pomp of...The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, encrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 320
...as if proudly reluctant to admit the feet of common mortals into this most gorgeous of sepulchres. On entering, the eye is astonished by the pomp of...The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, encrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 250
...as if proudly reluctant to admit the feet of common mortals into this most gorgeous of sepulchres. On entering, the eye is astonished by the pomp of...The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, encrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 390
...scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and...fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb. Along the sides of the chapel are the lofty stalls of the Knights of... | |
 | Francis Coghlan - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 996
...works, the cathedral of Milan. The interior of this temple is not less surprising and majestic ; and the eye is astonished by the pomp of architecture...The very walls are wrought into universal ornament ; and the stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and density.... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 856
...almost miraculous roof ? where, in the words of Washington Irving, "stone seems, by the cunning labours of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and...fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb." Then, again, the statues ; the innumerable statues of patriarchs, snints,... | |
 | 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 796
...niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone,' he adds, ' seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and...fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb.' This is all very graphic, and very correct. It is truly a splendid... | |
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