...said the sculptor, "it is to the aperture in the dome — that great Eye, gazing heavenward—that the Pantheon owes the peculiarity of its effect. It...into beautiful colors ? Look at that broad, golden beam—a sloping cataract of sunlight — which comes down from the aperture and rests upon the shrine,...

...opening, and then the sunshine fall through it/agaiu, fltfully, as it does now. Would it be any wonder tf we were to see angels hovering there, partly in and partly out, with genial heaveuly faces, not intercepting the light, but transmitting it into beautiful colours ? Look at that...

...roofing the edifice where the builders left it open. It is very delightful, in a breezy day, to sec like that immenser mystery which envelopes our little...to face, and became aware that one of their part)' colours? Look at that broad, golden beam — a sloping cataract of sunlight — which comes down from...

...is green with small, fine moss, such as grows over tombstones in damp English churchyards. " 1 « " I like better," replied Hilda, " to look at the bright,...genial, heavenly faces, not intercepting the light, but transmuting it into beautiful colours ? Look at that broad, golden beam — a sloping cataract of sunlight...

...associate this element of nature (as opposed to architecture and shrines beneath it) with the divine: "it is very delightful, in a breezy day, to see the...partly in and partly out, with genial, heavenly faces?" (457). But just moments later, Hilda reveals the limits of her willingness to elevate the nonhuman...