 The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, incrusted 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 of its weight and density, suspended...  Irvings̓ Sketch Book - Page 142by Washington Irving - 1911 - 417 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...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 - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...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... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - England - 1822 - 218 pages
...adorned with a profusion of embroidery. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, (says Irving,) to have been robbed of its weight and density, suspended...fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cob-web. In this chapel are the stalls of the Knights of the Bath, richly carved... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...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 - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1834 - 320 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 1843 - 390 pages
...scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and...fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb. Along the sides of the chapel are the lofty stalls of the Knights of... | |
 | Francis Coghlan - 1845 - 996 pages
...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.... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 856 pages
...almost miraculous roof ? where, in the words of Washington Irving, "stone seems, by the cunning labours of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and...fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb." Then, again, the statues ; the innumerable statues of patriarchs, snints,... | |
 | 1847 - 796 pages
...niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone,' he adds, ' seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and...fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb.' This is all very graphic, and very correct. It is truly a splendid... | |
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