Europe, Through a Woman's EyeLutheran Publication Society, 1883 - 225 páginas |
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... up moun- tain high . Sometimes the bow of the ship would be submerged in the waves , and it seemed that we must all ... feet of water the vessel draws . He came in a pilot boat , and then was brought from that to our steamer in a row ...
... up moun- tain high . Sometimes the bow of the ship would be submerged in the waves , and it seemed that we must all ... feet of water the vessel draws . He came in a pilot boat , and then was brought from that to our steamer in a row ...
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... up and down as on shipboard . As we had a few hours to spend in Liverpool before taking the train for London , we ... feet high ; and the massiveness of the structure is greatly enhanced by two colossal stone lions lying at the foot ...
... up and down as on shipboard . As we had a few hours to spend in Liverpool before taking the train for London , we ... feet high ; and the massiveness of the structure is greatly enhanced by two colossal stone lions lying at the foot ...
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... in Upper Egypt . It is seventy- six feet in height , and weighs two hundred and forty tons . The pedestal of Breton granite is thirteen feet high , and is also a single block . The steps raise it three and one - half feet above the ...
... in Upper Egypt . It is seventy- six feet in height , and weighs two hundred and forty tons . The pedestal of Breton granite is thirteen feet high , and is also a single block . The steps raise it three and one - half feet above the ...
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... in the Louvre , and is considered one of the finest in the world . It is two hun- dred and ten feet long . The ceiling paintings are very fine , and around the edge of the ceiling is the most beautiful statuary standing out in high ...
... in the Louvre , and is considered one of the finest in the world . It is two hun- dred and ten feet long . The ceiling paintings are very fine , and around the edge of the ceiling is the most beautiful statuary standing out in high ...
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... feet long and one hundred and forty - one feet wide , and is surrounded by fifty - two magnificent Corinthian columns , each seventeen feet in circumference . The tympanum of the façade contains a high ... high altar consists of an elegant ...
... feet long and one hundred and forty - one feet wide , and is surrounded by fifty - two magnificent Corinthian columns , each seventeen feet in circumference . The tympanum of the façade contains a high ... high altar consists of an elegant ...
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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.