 ... Ja-han. There are records at Agra showing that certain suggestions of the Italian were adopted, but it is common belief that the general design was the recommendation of a Turkish or Persian architect named Ustad Isa. In keeping with an old Tartar...  east fo suez ceylon, india, china, and japan - Page 168by frederic courtland penfield - 1907Full view - About this book
 | Sir Edwin Arnold - English literature - 1888 - 262 pages
...stones) So that this place of death is made a bower With beauteous grace of blossoms over-spread ; And she who loved her garden, lieth now Lapped in a garden. And all this for Love ! The marbles were Mukrani — Jeypore's best — Brought seventy koss in creaking cattle-wains ; The sand-stone... | |
 | Sir Edwin Arnold - 1889 - 1062 pages
...five-score stones) So that this place of death is made a bower With beauteous grace of blossoms overspread ; And she who loved her garden, lieth now Lapped in a garden. And all this for Love ! The marbles were Mukraui — Jeypore's best — Brought seventy koss in creaking cattle-wains ; The sandstone... | |
 | William Sproston Caine - Description and Travel - 1891 - 688 pages
...stones"1 fSo that this place of death is made a bower With beauteous grace of blossoms overspread ; And she who loved her garden, lieth now Lapped in a garden. And all this for Love 1 A visit to the mausoleum of Prince Itmad-ud-Daulat provides a pleasant morning's drive across the... | |
 | 1907 - 522 pages
...precious stones and tracery such as none but an oriental designer could create. "And she who loved a garden lieth now Lapped in a garden — And all this for love." Unremitting, single-eyed, Jehan scoured the world for master craftsman and material. The mosaics came... | |
 | 1906 - 944 pages
...Ustad Isa. In keeping with an old Tartar custom, a garden was chosen as the site of the tomb — a garden planted with flowers and fragrant shrubs, emblems...interment when dead. " And she who loved her garden, licth now Lapped in a garden. And all this for Love! " The laborers came from many parts of the world... | |
 | Frederic Courtland Penfield - Asia - 1907 - 382 pages
...named Ustad Isa. In keeping with an old Tartar custom, a garden was chosen as the site of the tomb— a garden planted with flowers and fragrant shrubs, emblems...Love ! " The laborers came from many parts of the world— the chief masons from Northern India and Bagdad, the dome builders from Asiatic TurThe World's... | |
 | Daniel Edward Lorenz - East Asia - 1925 - 576 pages
...garden that was the favourite haunt in life was often chosen as the spot of interment. So in this case "And she who loved her garden lieth now Lapped in a garden; And all this for love!" "The marble, spotless in purity, which makes up the building material, was brought from Jaipur, 1 50 miles... | |
 | Daniel Edward Lorenz - East Asia - 1925 - 570 pages
...garden that was the favourite haunt in life was often chosen as the spot of interment. So in this case "And she who loved her garden lieth now Lapped in a garden; And all this for love 1" "The marble, spotless in purity, which makes up the building material, was brought from Jaipur,... | |
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