 | 1854 - 686 pages
...is the worthy companion-piece of the above otherwise incomparable description : — " Beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises a vision out of the earth, and all the groat squares seem to have opened from it in a. kind of awe, that we may sec it far away : a multitude... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1853 - 628 pages
...if the rugged and irregular houses had been struck ' hack into sudden obedience and lovely order.' ' And well may they fall back, for beyond these troops...clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light, a treasure heap, it seems, partly of gold. partly of opal, and mother of pearl, hollowed beneath into... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1853 - 456 pages
...sculpture, and fluted shafts of delicate stone. § Xrv. 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 treasureheap, it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-ofpearl, hollowed beneath into... | |
 | Ecclesiological society - 1853 - 942 pages
...length is too great. We make room for its conclusion. " 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-ofpearl, hollowed beneath into... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1854 - 662 pages
...adopt Mr. Ruskm's description of the Church of St. Mark, after alluding to ал English cathedral : — "There rises a vision out of the earth, and all the...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... | |
 | 1854 - 632 pages
...Here is the worthy companion-piece of the above otherwise incomparable description : — "Beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises a vision out of the earth, and all the great squares seem to have opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it tar away : a multitude of... | |
 | Rand - 1857 - 344 pages
...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 treasureheap, it seems, partly of gold and partly of opal and mother-ofpearl, hollowed beneath into... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 496 pages
...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...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, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 pages
...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...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 pages
...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...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;... | |
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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... 
