 Sienna marble; the walls, screens, and tombs are covered with flowers and inscriptions, executed in beautiful mosaic of cornelians, lapis-lazuli and jasper; and yet though every thing is finished like an ornament for a drawing-room chimney-piece, the...  Hand Book for India and Egypt - Page 87by George Parbury - 1842 - 499 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Reginald Heber - Bishops - 1828 - 600 pages
...building, and the screen. The pavement is in alternate squares of white, and, what is called in Europe, sienna marble, the walls, screens, and tombs are covered...produced is rather solemn and impressive than gaudy. The parts which I like least are the great dome and the minarets. The bulbous swell of the former I think... | |
 | Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1828 - 598 pages
...building, and the screen. The pavement is in alternate squares of white, and, what is called in Europe, sienna marble, the walls, screens, and tombs are covered...produced is rather solemn and impressive than gaudy. The parts which I like least are the great dome and the minarets. The bulbous swell of the former I think... | |
 | Reginald Heber - Bishops - 1828 - 532 pages
...building and the screen. The pavement is in alternate squares of white, and what is called in Europe, sienna marble ; the walls, screens, and tombs are...produced is rather solemn and impressive than gaudy. The parts which I like least are the great dome and the minarets. The bulbous swell of the former I think... | |
 | Reginald Heber - Bishops - 1828 - 610 pages
...building, and the screen. The pavement is in alternate squares of white, and, what is called in Europe, sienna marble, the walls, screens, and tombs are covered...chim.ney-piece, the general effect produced is rather so-- lemn and impressive than gaudy. The parts which I like least are the great dome and the minarets.... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1829 - 630 pages
...building, and the screen. The pavement is in alternate squares of white, and, what is called in Europe, sienna marble, the walls, screens, and tombs are covered...inscriptions, executed in beautiful Mosaic of cornelians, lapis-. lazuli, and jasper; and yet, though every thing is finished like an ornament for a drawing-.room... | |
 | James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 964 pages
...building and the screen. The pavement is in alternate squares of white and, what is called in Europe, sienna marble ; the walls, screens, and tombs are...and inscriptions, executed in beautiful mosaic of carnelions, lazulite, and jasper ; and yet, though every thing is finished like an ornament for a drawing-room... | |
 | Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1844 - 320 pages
...building, and the screen. The pavement is in alternate squares of white, and, what is called in Europe, Sienna marble ; the walls, screens, and tombs are...cornelians, lapis-lazuli, and jasper ; and yet, though everything is finished like an ornament for a drawing-room chimney-piece, the general effect produced... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1845 - 846 pages
...inscriptions, executed in beautiful mosaic of carneiians, lapis-lazuli and jasper ; and yet, though everything is finished like an ornament for a drawing-room chimney-piece, the general effect is rather solemn and impressive than gaudy. "it stands in a square area of about forty English acres,... | |
 | Reginald Heber - Bishops - 1846 - 328 pages
...building, and the screen. The pavement is in alternate squares of white, and, what is called in Europe. Sienna marble ; the walls, screens, and tombs are...cornelians, lapis-lazuli, and jasper; and yet, though everything is finished like an ornament for a drawing-room chimney-piece, the general effect produced... | |
 | Reginald Heber - Bishops - 1849 - 320 pages
...and the screen. The pavement is in alternate squares of white, and, what is called in EuropeSienna marble ; the walls, screens, and tombs are covered...cornelians, lapis-lazuli, and jasper ; and yet, though everything is finished like an ornament for a drawing-room chimney-piece, the general effect produced... | |
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