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...was sent first for a short journey in Italy to study the effect of the old mosaics as well as the frescoes, and then to go out to America to the work ... ...in-waiting, than Hubert Delrio came to secure specimens of marble for some mosaic work on which he was engaged. He was fast becoming a man of mark, wh...

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...ed on a culvert of mossy stones, superb in color, the prettiest of all the mosaics which time manufactures. The avenue continues by the brookside up a... ...gay scenes; all the embra- sures, both of doors and windows, are in marble mosaics. The room is heated from below. Every window looks forth 12 Sons o... ...ath-room is lined with Sevres tiles, painted in mono- chrome, the floor is mosaic, and the bath marble. An alcove, hidden by a picture painted on copp...

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...brain of the architect. There was marvelous freshness in the colors of the mosaics in the great arches of the fa cade, and all that gracious harmony ... ... cious and diligent boosting in the public school, we select the following mosaic: Abraham Lincoln was born in Wales in 1599. In the chapter headed “I...

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... chimney-piece. Surrounded by these treasures, and by innumerable bronzes, mosaics, majolica dishes, and little worm-eaten diptychs covered with angul...

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...ative walk. St. Mark’s is not the oldest building in the world, of course, but it seems the oldest, and looks the oldest—especially inside. When the a... ...nd to smarten it up would only damage it. One day I was sitting on a red marble bench in the vestibule looking up at an ancient piece of apprentice-wo...

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...ntastic figures inlaid in ivory, cups of yellow topaz mounted on filagree, mosaics which inspire theft, Dutch pictures in the style which Schinner has...

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...topped in front of a little jeweller’s shop, where a great many objects in mosaic were exposed in the window; I stood there for some min- utes—I don’t... ...I stood there for some min- utes—I don’t know why, for I have no taste for mosaic. In a moment a little girl came and stood beside me—a little girl wi...

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... her side as he entered the church once gorgeous with jasper, marbles, and mosaics, glowing with painted glass, resplendent with gold and jewels, rich... ...f painted glass had been placed side by side on the floor, so as to form a mosaic of dark red, blue, and green; and a child’s toy lay beside this piec...

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... conducted them through a still more beautiful court, lined with brilliant mosaics in the spandrels of the exquisite arches supported on slender shini... ...rsailles itself—courts surrounded with cloisters, sparkling with priceless mosaics, in those brilliant colours which East- ern taste alone can combine...

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...mental black silk, a wisp of lace turned over the collar and fastened by a mosaic brooch, and her face smoothed into harmony with her apparel, Ann Eli... ...ip bonnet with forget-me-nots of her own making. Ann Eliza brought out her mosaic brooch, a cashmere scarf of their mother’s was taken from its linen ... ...e basement. In January Ann Eliza pawned her mother’s cash- mere scarf, her mosaic brooch, and the rosewood what-not on which the clock had always stoo...

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... the melancholy girl wandered through those long galler- ies, and over the mosaic pavements of vast, solitary saloons, wondering what had become of th... ...r, perpetually through these long suites of rooms, over the cold marble or mosaic of the floors, growing chiller at every eternal footstep. Fancy the ... ... are the marbles with which they are inlaid. Their pavements are of- ten a mosaic, of rare workmanship. Around their lofty cor- nices hover flights of... ...unadorned with its resplendent gem. Then, conceive this minute wonder of a mosaic box, increased to the magnitude of a cathedral, without losing the i... ...to a shrine, in the extreme corner of the edifice, which is adorned with a mosaic copy of Guido’s beautiful Archangel, treading on the prostrate fiend... ...old or coral beads, a pair of heavy earrings, a curiously wrought cameo or mosaic brooch, and a silver comb or long stiletto among her glossy hair. Bu...

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...en one. First we went to the Church of St. Roch, to see a famous piece of mosaic-work there. It is a famous work of art, and was bought by I don’t kn... ...rmation may be perfectly relied on, though the fact is, we did not see the mosaic-work:the sacris- tan, who guards it, was yet in bed; and it was veil... ...’s toilette was done, and at the price of a dollar. So we were spared this mosaic exhibition; and I think I always feel relieved when such an event oc... ... and mortal can do no more. In order to reach that church of the forbidden mosaic, we had sweated up several most steep and dusty streets—hot and dust...

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...tainties, her old vani- ties were justified and sanctified, and in the darkness that had closed upon her one object remained clear. That object, as un...

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...is it that still thou sheddest thy sad fu- neral blights upon the gorgeous mosaics of dreams? Frag- ment of music too passionate, heard once, and hear...

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... the melancholy girl wandered through those long galler- ies, and over the mosaic pavements of vast, solitary saloons, wondering what had become of th... ...r, perpetually through these long suites of rooms, over the cold marble or mosaic of the floors, growing chiller at every eternal footstep. Fancy the ... ... are the marbles with which they are inlaid. Their pavements are of- ten a mosaic, of rare workmanship. Around their lofty cor- nices hover flights of... ...unadorned with its resplendent gem. Then, conceive this minute wonder of a mosaic box, increased to the magnitude of a cathedral, without losing the i... ...to a shrine, in the extreme corner of the edifice, which is adorned with a mosaic copy of Guido’s beautiful Archangel, treading on the prostrate fiend... ...old or coral beads, a pair of heavy earrings, a curiously wrought cameo or mosaic brooch, and a silver comb or long stiletto among her glossy hair. Bu...

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...ce, on the other, a singular limitation. The sister arts enjoy the use of a plastic and ductile material, like the modeller’s clay; literature alone i...

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...r, to whom she abandons herself with the rapture of the woman in the Roman mosaic who embraces a chimera; yet a third is thinking that this very eveni...

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...st; let be Their cancelled Babels: though the rough kex break The starred mosaic, and the beard-blown goat Hang on the shaft, and the wild figtree sp...

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...is it that still thou sheddest thy sad funeral blights upon the gor- geous mosaics of dreams? Fragment of music too stern, heard once and heard no mor...

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...rly Christian churches in Rome; they even faintly recalled to me the great mosaics of Ravenna. The Temple de Saint- 91 Henry James Jean has neither t...