Pope recorded his feelings about it in 1741 in his Verses on a Grotto by the River Thames at Twickenham, composed of Marbles, Spars and Mineralscorrect: "Where ling'ring Drops from Mineral Roofs distil, And pointed Crystals break the sparkling Rill, Unpolish'd Gemms no Ray on Pride bestow, And latent Metals innocently glow".
The building — composed of Vermont marble and granite, bronze and glass — was designed by Gordon Bunshaft, of the firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.
One of the most evident advantages of the thermoanalytical – chemometric approach adopted seems to be that it allows the certain identification of an unknown find composed of a marble known to be present among the reference samples considered, that is, contained in the reference file.
The station building is composed of white marble, and its dimensions are 61 x 21.5 m.
Upstairs, the master suite is composed of a marble fireplace, an office and a bathroom that overlooks the grounds.
The earliest mosaics in opus tessellatum were composed of stone and marble tesserae, but, in the course of the 2nd century, tesserae of coloured glass were introduced for special colour effects.
Chernow's aim is to make of Washington something other than a "lifeless waxwork," an "impossibly stiff and wooden figure, composed of too much marble to be quite human".
I ended up with a romantic dining spot for two in the long living room, composed of an antique, marble-topped French side table placed against a tall gilt wall mirror.
As a conservator specializing in sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art since 1984, Lynda A. Zycherman, 61, has applied a preservationist's touch to sculpture composed of every conceivable material: marble, bronze, steel, textiles, chocolate and — once was enough — three tons of cow bones imported from Italy.
