The Alhambra, being a brief record of the Arabian conquest of the Peninsula (1907)
Calvert, Albert Frederick, 1872-1946 · London, John Lane; New York, John Lane company · leaf 180
ss. The marblepillars are the tent spears, but of stone. The net-work lace veilthat filigrees every wall with cobwebs of harmonious colour, isthe old tent tapestry, the Cordovan-stamped leather hangingsare the Indian shawls that canopied the wandering and victorioushorsemans tent. They wanted mere… … MOSAIC IN DADO, HALL OF THE TWO SISTERS. The AUiambra. 103 arrest the air. Everything must float and sway; they wouldnot bar out the chirp of the dripping silver water. They thinnedand shaved the pillars till they were no longer cylinders ofmarble, but tender saplings, or flower-stalks, slender as…
