 The solid piles which sustained the cupola were composed of huge blocks of freestone, hewn into squares and triangles, fortified by circles of iron, and firmly cemented by the infusion of lead and quicklime ; but the weight of the cupola was diminished...  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - 第 120 頁Edward Gibbon 著 - 1806完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 頁
...triangles, fortified by circles of iron, and firmly cemented by the infusion of lead and quick lime: but the weight of the cupola was diminished by the...delight even the eyes of Barbarians, with a rich and variegated picture. A poet, who beheld the primitive lustre of Marbles. St. Sophia, enumerates the... | |
 | William Brockedon - 1833 - 308 頁
...wood, except for the doors, should be admitted into the new edifice ; and the choice of the materials was applied to the strength, the lightness, or the...delight even the eyes of barbarians, with a rich and variegated picture. " A variety of ornaments and figures was curiously expressed in mosaic ; and the... | |
 | William Brockedon - 1833 - 438 頁
...be admitted into the new edifice ; and the choice of the materials was applied to the SANTA SOPHIA. strength, the lightness, or the splendour of the respective...delight even the eyes of barbarians, with a rich and variegated picture. " A variety of ornaments and figures was curiously expressed in mosaic ; and the... | |
 | Joseph Gwilt - 1842 - 1114 頁
...cupola was diminished by the levity of its substance, which consists cither of pumice-stone that flouts in the water, or of bricks from the Isle of Rhodes,...delight even the eyes of barbarians with a rich and variegated picture." Various presents of marbles and mosaics, amongst which latter were seen representations... | |
 | 1847 - 492 頁
...of the cupola was diminished by the levity of its substance, which consists either of pumice stone that floats in the water, or of bricks from the Isle...delight even the eyes of barbarians, with a rich and variegated picture. Various presents of marble and mosaics, amongst which latter were seen representations... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 440 頁
...wood, except for the doors, should be admitted into the new edifice ; and the choice of the materials was applied to the strength, the lightness, or the...delight even the eyes of barbarians with a rich and variegated picture. A poet,105 who beheld the primitive lustre of St. Sophia, enumerates the colours,... | |
 | 1859 - 534 頁
...consiste either of pumice-stone that floats in the water, or of bricks from the Isle o^ Rhodes, five timee less ponderous than the ordinary sort. The whole frame...base materials were concealed by a crust of marble ; nnd the inside of St.- Sophia, the cupola, the two larger, and the six smaller, semi-domes, the walls,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 526 頁
...applied to the strength, the lightness, or the splendour of the respective parts. The solid piles [piers] which sustained the cupola were composed of huge blocks...delight even the eyes of barbarians with a rich and variegated picture. A poet, who beheld the primitive lustre of St. Sophia, enumerates the colours,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1866 - 138 頁
...quicklime. The whole frame of the edifice was constructed of brick, coated with an outer crust of gleaming marble; and the inside of St. Sophia, the cupola,...semi-domes, the walls, the hundred columns, and the pavement of waved marble, intended to imitate the rolling of the sea, delight even "the eyes of barbarians "... | |
 | Calvin N. Otis - 1869 - 320 頁
...extensions of those constructive principles. " The whole frame of the edifice was constructed with brick, but those base materials were concealed by...inside of St. Sophia, the cupola, the two larger and six smaller semi-domes, the walls, the hundred columns, and the pavement, delight even the eyes of... | |
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