The only monument which remains is that of Le Tellier, who reposes in white marble upon a black marble mattress, with allegorical figures watching over his slumbers.
In the church on a mural tablet of black marble, is inscribed the following epitaph, composed by Dr.
The pedestal is of white marble in panels, inlaid with vine-leaves in black marble.
At its east end, midway in height, and communicating with the gallery of paintings and with the billiard-room, is a gallery supported upon two massive pillars of black marble, with white marble capitals and bases.
Under the portico of this wing the following are the most remarkable among the statues: a Roman triumphans, two Phrygian kings in black marble.
The long gallery is painted with the famous acts of the Founder; the roof with the life of Julius Caesar; at the end of it is a cupola, or singing theatre, supported by very stately pillars of black marble.
About this and contiguous to the altar, runs a balustrade, in form of a theater, of black marble.
The senate-house hath a very stately portico, supported with choice columns of black marble, as I remember, of one entire stone.
The tomb is elegantly carved and ornamented, and bears the effigies of the royal pair resting upon a slab of black marble.
There was an inner chamber, or adytum, entirely encased with panels of black marble, polished like a mirror.
In the centre of this solemn hall stood an altar of black marble.
When I had taken my seat in this chamber of black marble, which was dimly lighted by a misty radiance before me, I saw that I was alone.
Next to this is a monument of black marble, very remarkably different from every other in the Abbey.
But observing afterwards a globe of black marble and a cube of white, and comparing them with our former object, we find two separate resemblances, in what formerly seemed, and really is, perfectly inseparable.
The ascent to the north portico is by twelve steps of black marble; the dome of the portico is supported and adorned with six very spacious columns (forty-eight inches diameter) of the Corinthian order.
Among the gifts from her grandmother and her sisters stood a handsome mantel-clock of black marble.
Each is supported by an angel, and on the pedestal of the king his will is inscribed in letters of gold, upon a black marble slab.
In another room there is a clock with a black marble case, on which France is represented as mourning for the death of the duke.
It has a black marble slab in front, and a bust in the yard with the following inscription: "Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.
They led Selim the Fisherman through damp and dismal entries and passage-ways until they came to the vaulted room of black marble, and there stood the beautiful statue on its black pedestal.
On the tomb, which is of black marble, the two cardinals George d'Amboise uncle and nephew are placed.
The body of the monument is supported by four columns of black marble, with capitals and bases of white alabaster.
Above the arcade is the following inscription on a table of black marble, of which the following is a translation.
The whole of the frieze is of alabaster, while the architrave and cornice are of black marble.
I do not believe that modern masons could produce so perfect a specimen of workmanship as the tower of Moyne Abbey, with its spiral staircase of black marble.
The caliph, to whom these complaints were but unpromising auguries, drove over the bodies of these wretched old men, and at length arrived at the foot of the terrace of black marble.
In this manner they conversed the whole day, and at night they bathed together in a basin of black marble, which admirably set off the fairness of Nouronihar.
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