 On entering, the eye is astonished by the pomp of architecture and the elaborate beauty of sculptured detail. The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, incrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs....  Seeing Europe with Famous Authors - Pàgina 9per Francis Whiting Halsey - 1914Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 pàgines
...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 - 424 pàgines
...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 - 1824 - 804 pàgines
...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 - 320 pàgines
...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 - 250 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Francis Coghlan - 1845 - 996 pàgines
...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.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 518 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 276 pàgines
...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...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... | |
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