Europe, Through a Woman's EyeLutheran Publication Society, 1883 - 225 páginas |
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... carving . The first - class waiting rooms are often carpeted with Brussels , and have a cheerful fire in the grate , hearth rugs , easy chairs , etc. , which gives the traveler such a home - like feeling , while he is waiting for trains ...
... carving . The first - class waiting rooms are often carpeted with Brussels , and have a cheerful fire in the grate , hearth rugs , easy chairs , etc. , which gives the traveler such a home - like feeling , while he is waiting for trains ...
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... carved and full of expression ; but both arms are broken off , and it is otherwise mutilated . In passing through the almost endless number of picture galleries , said to contain seven miles of pictures , we found so many to admire that ...
... carved and full of expression ; but both arms are broken off , and it is otherwise mutilated . In passing through the almost endless number of picture galleries , said to contain seven miles of pictures , we found so many to admire that ...
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... marble statue of its patron saint . It is gorgeous with frescoes , gildings , carvings , and statues . The floor and walls are of solid , polished marble , and the high altar consists of an elegant group of statuary 14 PARIS .
... marble statue of its patron saint . It is gorgeous with frescoes , gildings , carvings , and statues . The floor and walls are of solid , polished marble , and the high altar consists of an elegant group of statuary 14 PARIS .
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... forms an entrance through this splendid structure , which cost more than two million dol- lars . The exterior is adorned with richly - carved groups , repre- senting battle scenes , and on the walls of the 18 PARIS .
... forms an entrance through this splendid structure , which cost more than two million dol- lars . The exterior is adorned with richly - carved groups , repre- senting battle scenes , and on the walls of the 18 PARIS .
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... carved canopied niches containing statues ; and against a great many of these pillars are hung fine oil paintings . The mosaic pavement is of many different colored marbles . The vaulted roof is so skillfully painted that a person ...
... carved canopied niches containing statues ; and against a great many of these pillars are hung fine oil paintings . The mosaic pavement is of many different colored marbles . The vaulted roof is so skillfully painted that a person ...
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Página 68 - AND after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them : and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
Página 218 - Retreating and beating and meeting and sheeting, Delaying and straying and playing and spraying, Advancing and prancing and glancing and dancing...
Página 31 - A sunbeam which hath lost its way, And through the crevice and the cleft Of the thick wall is fallen and left; Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp...
Página 208 - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, "Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Página vii - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Página 32 - I ought to do — and did my best — And each did well in his degree. The youngest, whom my father loved, Because our mother's brow was given To him — with eyes as blue as heaven...
Página 149 - There is an acre sown with royal seed, the copy of the greatest change, from rich to naked, from ceiled roofs to arched coffins, from living like gods to die like men.
Página 74 - To see it crumbling there, an inch a year; its walls and arches overgrown with green; its corridors open to the day; the long grass growing in its porches ; young trees of yesterday, springing up on its ragged parapets, and bearing fruit: chance produce of the seeds dropped there by the birds who...
Página 149 - Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest, royal'st seed, That the earth did e'er suck in Since the first man died for sin; Here the bones of birth have cried, "Though gods they were, as men they died"; Here are sands, ignoble things Dropt from the ruin'd sides of kings.
Página 149 - Sleep within these heaps of stones: Here they lie, had realms and lands, Who now want strength to stir their hands: Where from their pulpits seal'd with dust They preach, 'In greatness is no trust.