 | Washington Irving - 1832 - 356 pages
...Alberca. In the centre was an immense basin or fish-pond, a hundred and thirty feet in length by thirty in breadth, stocked with gold-fish, and bordered by...flower-beds, and surrounded by light Arabian arcades of open filagree-work, supported by slender pillars of white marble. The architecture, like that of all the... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1832 - 680 pages
...this court rose the great Tower of Comarcs. - From the lower end, we passed through a Moorish gateway into the renowned Court of Lions. There is no part...flower-beds, and surrounded by light Arabian arcades of open filagree-work, supported by slender pillars of white marble. The architecture, like that of all the... | |
 | 1832 - 600 pages
...and the twelve lions which support them, cast forth their crystal streams, as in the days of Eoabdil. The court is laid out in flower-beds, and surrounded by light Arabian arcades of open filagree-work, supported by slender pillars of white marble. The architecture, like that of all the... | |
 | 1833 - 814 pages
...gives us a more complete idea of its original beauty and magnificence, than the Hall of the Lions, for none has suffered so little from the ravages of...flower-beds, and surrounded by light Arabian arcades of open fillagreework, supported by slender pillars of white marble. The architecture, like that of all the... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1838 - 702 pages
...original beauty and magnificence than this ; for none has suffered so little from the ravages of lime. In the centre stands the fountain famous in song and...flowerbeds, and surrounded by light Arabian arcades of open filligree-work, supported by slender pillars of white marble. The architecture, like that of all the... | |
 | Frances Anne Vane Marchioness of Londonderry - Europe - 1842 - 378 pages
...the renowned Court of Lions : — " There is no part of the edifice that gives a 316 COURT OF LIONS. more complete idea of its original beauty and magnificence...flower-beds, and surrounded by light Arabian arcades of open filagree work, supported by slender pillars of white marble. The architecture, like that of all the... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Architecture - 1848 - 512 pages
...alabaster basins still shed their diamond drops, and the twelve lions that support them, cast forth their streams as in the days of Boabdil. The court is laid...flowerbeds, and surrounded by light Arabian arcades of open filigree-work, supported by slender pillars of white marble. The architecture, like that of all the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 712 pages
...alabaster basins still shed their diamond drops, and the twelve lions which support them, cast forth (heir crystal streams as in the days of Boabdil. The court is laid out in flower beds, and surrounded by light Arabian arcades of open filigree work, supported by slender pillars... | |
 | Washington Irving - Spain - 1886 - 594 pages
...centre stands the fountain famous in song and story. The alabaster basins still shed their dia mond drops, and the twelve lions which support them, cast...as in the days of Boabdil. The court is laid out in flower beds, and surrounded by light Arabian arcades of open filigree work, supported by slender pillars... | |
 | Charles H.Sylevester - 1909 - 594 pages
...and magnificence than this; for none has suffered so little from the ravages of time. In the center stands the fountain famous in song and story. The...open filigree work, supported by slender pillars of IN THE COURT OF LIONS white marble. The architecture, like that of all the other parts of the palace,... | |
| |
There is no part of the edifice that gives us a more complete idea of its original beauty and magnificence than this, for none has suffered so little from the ravages of time. In the centre stands the fountain famous in song and story. The alabaster basins... 