When all had made libation, and no wish Remain'd of more, then each to rest retired, 500 And Nestor the Gerenian warrior old Led thence Telemachus to a carved couch Beneath the sounding portico prepared.
The son of Nestor plied the lash, and forth Through vestibule and sounding portico The royal coursers, not unwilling, flew.
Under the portico are two allegorical groups by the famous sculptor, Etex.
At the end of a large courtyard, surrounded with gardens, is seen the portico of a church with Ionic columns, whose pediment, frightfully mutilated, has quite a tragic aspect.
In the centre of the colonnade was a portico as high as the house itself, having a roof fretted and gilt after the fashion of the Moorish courts in the Alhambra.
Immediately within the portico was seen the hospitable "Salve," set in large letters in the mosaic pavement.
He decorated a porticoof Cardinal Mazarine with subjects from the metamorphoses of Ovid, and afterwards adorned some of the royal saloons with passages from the AEneid.
Marziale, there is by him a Christ preaching, with a beautiful portico in perspective, and a great number of auditors: the figures in this are also small, and such as are seen in the compositions of Albert Durer.
They are exposed annually in the great portico of S.
Maria Tamburini will be found to hold a high rank, the author of many fresco histories in the portico of the Conventuals, and of the Nunziata at the Vita, a very graceful painting drawn from his master's sketch.
He represented the saint, standing near a portico on a basement, and dispensing his wealth to poor mendicants; a composition not so very rich in figures as in knowledge of the art.
Farnese Gallery, and imitated by Domenichino in the histories of St. Jerome in the portico of S.
We there see a portico painted in arabesque, and a saloon, in the ceiling of which is represented the banquet given by Dido to AEneas; a beautiful work, particularly the arabesques, but not sufficiently studied.
Malvasia is of opinion, that, had he survived, he would have equalled the fame of Bagnacavallo; such was the promise held forth by a painting of the Crucifixion under the portico of S.
Batista Baiardo, of I know not what school, but certainly commendable for the talents displayed in his pictures at the portico of S.
Some of his earliest efforts are met with in Bologna, at the portico of the Serviti; but not equal to the altar-piece in the church of S.
In the porticoof the Servi he represented, in a lunette, S.
The judge and I stood listening on the portico until the hoof-beats died away, and then returned to the blaze of the great wood-fire in the sitting-room.
Two or three loungers were hanging about the dimly-lighted portico of a saloon.
I was addressing a request to go faster, the villains cracked their whips, and breaking into a full gallop, before five minutes flew over, they drew up with a jerk at the foot of a long portico to a large and spacious cut-stone mansion.
They had now emerged from the gateway of the palace; and partly concealed by one of the pillars of the portico stood a figure such as may often be encountered in the streets and piazzas of Rome, and nowhere else.
In Orcagna's the cave remains, but a wooden portico or shed is added to shelter the Virgin and her Child.
On the right in the same picture is Joseph welcoming his brothers in the portico of the palace, Pharaoh's armed guard outside looking rather grimly and inhospitably on the intruders.
Compare for equally defective perspective the covered portico in 30.
This is represented by the Roman portico behind the central group, under which, at a long table, is seated a row of scribes, who are entering the names of the people.
On the right of the composition are an ancient Ionic portico (seen from the side) and a statue of Apollo, surrounded by trees.
The fourth, where the Picture of the Belides was, is to be understood of the Portico of Apollo Palatinus, in which were the Statues of the fifty Daughters of Danaus and Grandaughters of Belus.
The third Portico was built by Livia the Wife of Augustus, and called from her Name.
The second Portico mentioned, is by the best Commentators understood of the Octavian, which was built by Octavia, Sister to Augustus, and Mother to Marcellus; and this adjoined to a Temple built by the same Marcellus.
That facing the south is decorated with a portico composed of the Tuscan and Doric orders, having niches on the sides.
The west has an arched window, under which is a circular portico of four columns, agreeable to the former composition.
We who have known Saint Peter's since the old days cannot go in under the portico without recalling vividly the splendid pageants we have seen pass in and out by the same gate.
Borghesius' over the middle of the portico of Saint Peter's, high above the entrance to the most vast monument of human hands in existence.
And close by the Ghetto, in all that remains of the vast Portico of Octavia, is the little Church of Sant' Angelo in Pescheria where the Jews were once compelled to hear Christian sermons on Saturdays.
The old Egyptian capital lay Cyclopean, like some extinct monster, with heavy lines of squat, bleaching sanctuaries and, on the river, a portico of giant pylons.
Agrippa also built the temple of Neptune, and the portico of the Argonauts.
It stood between the portico of Octavia and the hill of the Capitol.
Footnote 155: The Portico of Octavia stood between the Flaminian circus and the theatre of Marcellus, enclosing the temples of Jupiter and Juno, said to have been built in the time of the republic.
Footnote 323: The porticoof the temple of Concord is still standing on the side of the Forum nearest the Capitol.
Piranesi thinks that the two beautiful columns of white marble, which are commonly described as belonging to the portico of the temple of Jupiter Stator, are the remains of the temple of Castor and Pollux.
This King was very covetous, and a great collector of taxes, and one of the richest of all the Kings of Egypt, and built the western portico of the Temple of Vulcan.
Asychis Reigns in Egypt, and builds the eastern Portico of the Temple of Vulcan very splendidly; and a large Pyramid of brick, made of mud dug out of the Lake of Mœris.
Amenophis dies, and is succeeded by his son Ramesses or Rhampsinitus, who builds the western Portico of the Temple of Vulcan.
A group had gathered on the brick flagging between the frozen fountain and the Greek portico of the old capitol, and every slouching figure was moving toward it.
Around the Greek portico of the capitol building he saw more soldiers lounging, and near a big fountain in the State-house yard was a Gatling-gun which looked too little to do much harm.
Several were of red brick and one had a massiveportico with great towering columns, and at that he looked more curiously still.
From every point the hunters came, turning in where a big square brick house with a Grecian portico stood far back in a wooded yard, with a fish-pond on one side and a great smooth lawn on the other.
The portico was crowded with men, all talking at the top of their voices.
This temple, called Lu-kang, is circular in form, with a loggia or portico running all round and adorned with paintings.
All these buildings followed the same general plan, consisting of a reading-room and more or less ample book stores; the former was either rectangular or semi-circular in shape and was approached under a stately portico and colonnade.
The entrance consists of a portico supported on timber columns, carved and gilt, while the walls are engraved with Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan characters, and a great prayer-wheel stands on one side.
It is in the Portico of the Greek sage that that phrase has received its legitimate explanation; it is there we are taught that 'common-sense' signifies 'the sense of the common interest.
We had reached the house by this time, and as we drew up before the portico the Colonel stood on the top step waiting to welcome me.
I turned to find the horses--three of them--waiting at the portico steps.
The news of his release had in some way preceded us, and as we drove up to the house, all the negroes came crowding out on the portico to welcome home "young Marse Rad.
It was still early, and neither the Colonel nor Radnor had appeared; but Solomon was sweeping off the portico steps and I addressed myself to him.
On the south side a huge curved portico bulged out to meet the driveway.
My uncle, who was standing on the portico steps waiting for his horse, was in a particularly savage mood, as he had just come from an altercation with Radnor.
We rode up to the portico with considerable clamor and dismounted.
