| Josiah Conder - 1828 - 400 páginas
...cultivate a little wheat. The garden itself is surrounded with an embattled wall, with towers,,four gateways, and a cloister within, all the way round....supported also by cloisters, and ascended by four great nights of granite steps. Above rises the tomb, also a square, with a great dome of white marble in... | |
| Robert Elliot - 1833 - 356 páginas
...Shah." " Humaib'on's Tomb," says Bishop Heber, " is a noble building of granite, inlaid with marble, in a very chaste and simple style of Gothic architecture....In the centre of the square is a platform of about 20 feet high, and I should apprehend 200 feet square, supported also by cloisters, and ascended by... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - 1835 - 1326 páginas
...architecture. It is surrounded by a large garden, with terraces and fountains, all now gone to decay. The garden itself is surrounded by an embattled wall,...gateways, and a cloister within, all the way round. ( 7Vai>. <Jc., vol. ip 555. ) Bishop Heber, who consecrated a burial-ground near Dacca, describes it... | |
| Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1836 - 550 páginas
...a large garden, with terraces and fountains, all now gone to decay. The garden itself is encircled by an embattled wall, with towers, four gateways,...of about twenty feet high, and, I should apprehend, two hundred feet square, supported also by cloisters, and ascended by four great flights of granite... | |
| 1837 - 538 páginas
...architecture. It is surrounded by a large garden with terraces and fountains, all now gone to decay, excepting one of the latter, which enables the poor people who...with towers, four gateways, and a cloister within all round. In the centre of tho square is a platform of about twenty feet high, and I should apprehend... | |
| 1837 - 260 páginas
...architecture. It is surrounded by a large garden with terraces and fountains, all now gone to decay, excepting one of the latter, which enables the poor people who...with towers, four gateways, and a cloister within all round. In the centre of the square is a platform of about twenty feet high, and I should apprehend... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - 1837 - 1158 páginas
...can scarcely afford the smallest aid to the construction of roads or canals. * s The garden itself ia surrounded by an embattled wall, with towers, four...gateways, and a cloister within, all the way round." — Heber. The tomb of Akbar " stands in a square area of about forty English acres, eneland by an... | |
| DAVID O.. ALLEN, D. D. - 1856 - 636 páginas
...surrounded by a large garden with terraces and fountains, all now gone to decay except one of the latter. The garden itself is surrounded by an embattled wall...round. In the centre of the square is a platform, about 20 feet high, and I should apprehend 200 feet square, supported also by cloisters, and ascended... | |
| David Oliver Allen - 1856 - 652 páginas
...surrounded by a large garden with terraces and fountains, all now gone to decay except one of the latter. The garden itself is surrounded by an embattled wall...round. In the centre of the square is a platform, about 20 feet high, and I should apprehend 200 feet square, supported also by cloisters, and ascended... | |
| Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1857 - 266 páginas
...all now gone to decay. The garden itself is surrounded by an embattled wall with towers or mimirets, four gateways and a cloister within, all the way round....square is a platform of about twenty feet high and about two hundred feet squave, supported also by cloisters, and ascended by four nights of granite... | |
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