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" ... there opens before us a vast cave, hewn out into the form of a cross, and divided into shadowy aisles by many pillars. Round the domes of its roof the light enters only through narrow apertures like large stars ; and here and there a ray or two from... "
Cities of the World: Their Origin, Progress, and Present Aspect - Page 93
by Edwin Hodder - 1882
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The Ecclesiologist

Ecclesiological society - 1853 - 942 pages
...pillars. Round tlie domes of its roof the light enters only through narrow apertures, like large stars; and here and there a ray or two from some far-away...of marble that heave and fall in a thousand colours along the floor. What else there is of light is from torches, or silver lamps, burning ceaselessly...
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The Ecclesiologist, Volume 11

1853 - 512 pages
...Round the domes of its roof the light enters only through narrow apertures, like large stars ; aud here and there a ray or two from some far-away casement...of marble that heave and fall in a thousand colours along the floor. What else there is of light is from torches, or silver lamps, burning ceaselessly...
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The Stones of Venice: The sea-stories

John Ruskin - 1853 - 456 pages
...only through narrow apertures like large stars ; and here and there a ray or two from some far away casement wanders into the darkness, and casts a narrow...of marble that heave and fall in a thousand colours along the floor. What else there is of light is from torches, or silver lamps, burning ceaselessly...
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The ten chief courts of the Sydenham palace

Crystal palace - 1854 - 250 pages
...church, hewn out like a vast cave, the light entering through narrow apertures like stars, casting a narrow phosphoric stream upon the waves of marble that heave and fall in a thousand colours along the floor, and the walls giving back the light of the torches or silver lamps that burn ceaselessly...
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The Sydenham Sindbad [by - Rand].

Rand - 1857 - 344 pages
...pillars. Round the domes of its roof the light enters only through narrow apertures like large stars ; and here and there a ray or two from some far-away...of marble that heave and fall in a thousand colours along the floor. What else there is of light is from torches, or silver lamps, burning ceaselessly...
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The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion: Selected ...

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 pages
...pillars. Round the domes of its roof the light enters only through narrow apertures like large stars ; and here and there a ray or two from some far-away...waves of marble that heave and fall in a thousand colors along the floor. What else there is of light is from torches, or silver lamps, burning carelessly...
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The True and the Beautiful: In Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 496 pages
...pillars. Round the domes of its roof the light enters only through narrow apertures like large stars ; and here and there a ray or two from some far-away...waves of marble that heave and fall in a thousand colors along the floor. What else there is of light is from torches, or silver lamps, burning carelessly...
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The Stones of Venice, Volume 2

John Ruskin - 1867 - 482 pages
...pillars. Round the domes of its roof the light enters only through narrow; apertures like large stars; and here and there a ray or two from some far-away...of marble that heave and fall in a thousand colours along the floor. What else there is of light is from torches, or silver lamps, burning ceaselessly...
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The stones of Venice.-3 vol

John Ruskin - 1867 - 458 pages
...only through narrow apertures like large stars ; and here and there a ray or two from some for away casement wanders into the darkness, and casts a narrow...waves of marble that heave and fall in a thousand colors along the floor. What else there is of light is from torches, or silver lamps, burning ceaselessly...
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Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...only through narrow apertures like large stars ; and here and there a ray or two from some far away casement wanders into the darkness, and casts a narrow...of marble that heave and fall in a thousand colours along the floor. What else there is of light is from torches, or silver lamps, burning ceaselessly...
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