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• "Once upon a time on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental-splendour."
• The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.
• The splendor of the Queen's coronation was without comparison.
• De mirabilibus urbis Romae, preserved in a single manuscript, is a medieval guide in Latin to the splendors of Rome.