 | Bayard Taylor - 1862 - 588 pages
...sleeps by her side. The vault was filled with the odors of rose, jasmine, and sandal-wood, the preeious attars of which are sprinkled upon the tomb. Wreaths...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... | |
 | John Henry Gray - 1879 - 656 pages
...simpler cenotaph raised somewhat above hers, sleeps by her side. The vault was filled with the odours of rose, jasmine, and sandal-wood, the precious attars...lofty rotunda, lighted both from above and below by screens of marble and jasper, and ornamented with a wainscoting of sculptured tablets representing... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1882 - 444 pages
...ashes are covered by a simpler cenotaph, raised somewhat above hers, sleeps by her side. The vault was filled with the odors of rose, jasmine, and sandalwood,...flowers lay upon it, or withered around its base. 10. These were the true tombs, the monuments for display being placed in the grand hall above, which... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1882 - 452 pages
...ashes are covered by a simpler cenotaph, raised somewhat above hers, sleeps by her side. The vault was filled with the odors of rose, jasmine, and sandalwood,...flowers lay upon it, or withered around its base. 10. These were the true tombs, the monuments for display being placed in the grand hall above, which... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1885 - 562 pages
...ashes are covered by a simpler cenotaph, raised somewhat above hers, sleeps by her side. The vault was filled with the odors of rose, jasmine, and sandal-wood,...lofty rotunda, 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... | |
 | Robert George Hobbes - 1893 - 594 pages
...inlaid with flowers in jewels, many of which have been carried away. The vault is filled with the odour of rose, jasmine, and sandal-wood, the precious attars of which are sprinkled upon the tombs. delicate as their dwelling. They will not answer to rude noises ; but if a woman's voice be... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - 1904 - 296 pages
...upon the tomb of the queen in the center. The vault was filled with the odors of rose, jasmine, and 10 sandalwood, the precious attars of which are sprinkled...beautiful flowers lay upon it or withered around its base. . . . The Taj truly is, as 1 have already said, a poem. It is 5 not only a pure architectural type... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - 1904 - 296 pages
...the tomb of the queen in the center. The vault was filled with the odors of rose, jasmine, and 10 283 sandalwood, the precious attars of which are sprinkled...beautiful flowers lay upon it or withered around its base. . . . The Taj truly is, as I have already said, a poem. It is 5 not only a pure architectural type... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1912 - 462 pages
...simpler cenotaph, raised somewhat above hers, sleeps by her side. The vault was filled with the odours of rose, jasmine and sandal-wood, the precious attars...lofty rotunda, 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... | |
 | Henry George Keene - 18?? - 158 pages
...ashes are covered by a simpler cenotaph, raised somewhat above her's sleeps by her side. The vault was filled with the odors of rose, jasmine and sandal-wood,...lofty rotunda, lighted both from above and below by screens of marble and jasper, and ornamented with a wainscoting of sculptured tablets representing... | |
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Shah-Jehan, whose ashes are covered by a simpler cenotaph, raised somewhat above hers, sleeps by her side. 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... 