 | William Beckford - Italy - 1834 - 648 pages
...bright illumination, we visited the collateral chapels, each enriched with highly finished bassi-relievi and stately portals of black and yellow marble, richly...highly polished as to reflect objects like a mirror. Never did I behold such an assemblage of beautiful marble as gleamed above, below, and around us. The... | |
 | William White Cooper - 1840 - 150 pages
...illumination, we visited the collateral chapels, each enriched with highly finished bassi relievi, and stately portals of black and yellow marble, richly...highly polished as to reflect objects like a mirror. Never did I behold an assemblage of such beautiful marble as gleamed above, below, and around us. The... | |
 | John Smith Athelstane Carnota (Conde da) - Portugal - 1843 - 392 pages
...bright illumination, we visited the collateral chapels, each enriched with highly-finished bassi-relievi and stately portals of black and yellow marble, richly...highly polished as to reflect objects like a mirror. Never did I behold such an assemblage of beautiful marble as gleamed above, below, and around us. The... | |
 | William Beckford - Italy - 1845 - 478 pages
...bright illumination, we visited the collateral chapels, each enriched with highly finished bassi-rilievi and stately portals of black and yellow marble, richly...highly polished as to reflect objects like a mirror. Never did I behold such an assemblage of beautiful marble as gleamed above, below, and around us. The... | |
 | [Anonymus AC10074690] - Lisbon (Portugal) - 1853 - 390 pages
...collateral chapelt, which aru six in nuinlier, are each enriched witli finely finished i'a.,si relievi, and stately portals of black and yellow marble, richly veined, and so highly polished as to reflect object* like a unrror. lite pavement, the vaulted ceiling, the dome, and even the topmost lantern,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1855 - 830 pages
...gleamed above, below, and around us. The collateral chapels, which are 6 in number, are each enriched with finely finished bas-reliefs, and stately portals...to reflect objects like a mirror. The pavement, the vanlted ceiling, j the dome, and even the topmost Ian- ! tern, is encrusted with the same costly j... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Portugal - 1856 - 312 pages
...gleamed above, below, and around us. The collateral chapels, which are 6 in number, are each enriched with finely finished bas-reliefs, and stately portals...ceiling, the dome, and even the topmost lantern, is encrusted with the same costly and durable material. Roses of white marble and wreaths of palm branches,... | |
 | John Smith Athelstane Carnota (Conde da) - Portugal - 1871 - 414 pages
...bright illumination, we visited the collateral chapels, each enriched with highly-finished bassi-relievi and stately portals of black and yellow marble richly...highly polished as to reflect objects like a mirror. Never did I behold such an assemblage of beautiful marble as gleamed above, below, and around us. The... | |
 | Joaquim António de Macedo - 1874 - 346 pages
...around us. The collateral chapels, six in number, are each enriched with finely finished bassi relievi and stately portals of black and yellow marble, richly...ceiling, the dome, and even the topmost lantern, is encrusted with the same costly and durable material. Roses of white marble and wreaths of palm branches,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Portugal - 1875 - 362 pages
...gleamed above, below, and around us. The collateral chapels, which are 6 in number, are each enriched with finely finished bas-reliefs, and stately portals...vaulted ceiling, the dome, and even the topmost lantern, are encrusted with the same costly and durable material. Roses of white marble and wreaths of palm-branches,... | |
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I behold such an assemblage of beautiful marble as gleamed above, below, and around us. The pavement, the vaulted ceiling, the dome, and even the topmost lantern, is encrusted with the same costly and durable materials. 
