 Stone seems, by the cunning labor of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and density, suspended aloft, as if by magic, and the fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness...  Hand-book for central Europe - Seite 509von Francis Coghlan - 1845Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 Seiten
...reluctant to admit the feet of common mortals into this most gorgeous of sepulchres. • On entering, the eye is astonished by the pomp of architecture,...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 - 1820 - 438 Seiten
...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 architecture,...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 Seiten
...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 architecture,...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 Seiten
...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 architecture,...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 Seiten
...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 architecture,...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 - 1848 - 478 Seiten
...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 architecture,...The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, incrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 278 Seiten
...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 architecture,...The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, incrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 544 Seiten
...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 architecture,...The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, incrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 484 Seiten
...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 architecture,...elaborate beauty of sculptured detail. The very walls arc wrought into universal ornament, incrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 492 Seiten
...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 architecture,...the elaborate beauty of sculptured detail. The very walla are wrought into universal ornament, incrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded... | |
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