The vault was filled with the odors of rose, jasmine, and sandal-wood, the precious attars of which are sprinkled upon the tomb. Wreaths of beautiful flowers lay upon it, or withered around its base. These were the true tombs, the monuments for display... Rough Notes of Journeys Made in the Years 1868, '69, '70, '71, '72, & '73 ... - Pagina 486door Syria - 1875 - 605 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Bayard Taylor - 1855 - 578 pagina’s
...the precious attars of which are sprinkled upon the tomb. Wreaths of beautiful flowers lay upon it, or withered around its base. These were the true tombs,...lighted both from above and below by screens of marble, wrought in filigree. It is paved with blocks of white marble and jasper, and ornamented with a wainscoting... | |
| Bayard Taylor - 1862 - 588 pagina’s
...the preeious attars of which are sprinkled upon the tomb. Wreaths of beautiful flowers lay upon it, or withered around its base. These were the true tombs, the monuments for display being plaeed in the grand hall above, which is a lofty rotunda, lighted both from above and below by sereens... | |
| Bayard Taylor - 1864 - 570 pagina’s
...the precious attars of which are sprinkled upon the tomb. Wreaths of beautiful flowers lay upon it, or withered around its base. These were the^ true...lofty rotunda, lighted both from above and below by scrcens of marble, wrought in filigrce. It is paved with blocks of white marble and jasper, and ornamented... | |
| Bayard Taylor - 1872 - 564 pagina’s
...above and below by screens of marble, wrought in filigree. It is paved with blocks of white marblo and jasper, and ornamented with a wainscoting of sculptured...blood-stone, agate, cornelian, lapis-lazuli, and other preeious stones, and surrounded with an octagonal screen six feet high, in the open *racery of which... | |
| Bayard Taylor - 1874 - 566 pagina’s
...the preeious attars of whieh are sprinkled upon the tomb. Wreaths of beantiful flowers lay upon it, or withered around its base. These were the true tombs, the monuments for display being plaeed in the grand hall above, whieh is a lofty rotunda, lighted both from above and below by sereens... | |
| James Johonnot - 1882 - 452 pagina’s
...sprinkled upon the tomb. Wreaths of beautiful flowers lay upon it, or withered around its base. 10. These were the true tombs, the monuments for display...lighted both from above and below by screens of marble, wrought in filigree. It is paved with blocks of white marble and jasper, and ornamented with a wainscoting... | |
| James Johonnot - 1882 - 446 pagina’s
...sprinkled upon the tomb. Wreaths of beautiful flowers lay upon it, or withered around its base. 10. These were the true tombs, the monuments for display...lighted both from above and below by screens of marble, wrought in filigree. It is paved with blocks of white marble and jasper, and ornamented with a wainscoting... | |
| James Johonnot - 1882 - 448 pagina’s
...both from above and below by screens of marble, wrought in filigree. It is paved with blocks of white marble and jasper, and ornamented with a wainscoting...marble, exquisitely inlaid with blood-stone, agate, carnelian, lapis lazuli, and other precious stones, and surrounded with an octagonal screen six feet... | |
| Bayard Taylor - 1885 - 562 pagina’s
...the precious attars of which are sprinkled upon the tomb. Wreaths of beautiful flowers lay upon it, or withered around its base. These were the true tombs,...lighted both from above and below by screens of marble, wrought in filigree. It is paved with blocks of white marble and jasper, and ornamented with a wainscoting... | |
| Bayard Taylor - 1885 - 572 pagina’s
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