Europe, Through a Woman's EyeLutheran Publication Society, 1883 - 225 páginas |
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... figures are all colossal . On the right of the Saviour are the elect and the Angel of Salvation , and on his left the Angel of Justice and the damned , with Mary Magdalene interceding for them . This church is built exclusively of stone ...
... figures are all colossal . On the right of the Saviour are the elect and the Angel of Salvation , and on his left the Angel of Justice and the damned , with Mary Magdalene interceding for them . This church is built exclusively of stone ...
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... figures in his geometry . Then a grand flight of stone steps leads to the large gravel space in front of the palace . Immediately below the terraces are two large , exquisitely beauti- tiful fountains , and tastefully - arranged flower ...
... figures in his geometry . Then a grand flight of stone steps leads to the large gravel space in front of the palace . Immediately below the terraces are two large , exquisitely beauti- tiful fountains , and tastefully - arranged flower ...
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... the form of a six - sided pyramid . On the top is an equestrian statue of the duke in bronze , and in the interior is also a reclining figure of the duke . The reliefs , pillars , and the entire ornamentation , ( 25 ) CHAPTER III. ...
... the form of a six - sided pyramid . On the top is an equestrian statue of the duke in bronze , and in the interior is also a reclining figure of the duke . The reliefs , pillars , and the entire ornamentation , ( 25 ) CHAPTER III. ...
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... figure of the crucified Saviour , where Catholics come to pray . This seemed very strange to us , but we afterwards saw an innumerable number of them scattered through Italy . Driving through the country and towns in this manner ...
... figure of the crucified Saviour , where Catholics come to pray . This seemed very strange to us , but we afterwards saw an innumerable number of them scattered through Italy . Driving through the country and towns in this manner ...
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... figure repre- senting America kneels at his feet . The monument is sur- rounded by allegorical figures representing geography , wisdom , strength and religion . The scenery between Genoa and Pisa is very striking . For miles we ran ...
... figure repre- senting America kneels at his feet . The monument is sur- rounded by allegorical figures representing geography , wisdom , strength and religion . The scenery between Genoa and Pisa is very striking . For miles we ran ...
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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.