Europe, Through a Woman's EyeLutheran Publication Society, 1883 - 225 páginas |
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... seated chairs , and here and there garnet plush circular sofas . The ride from Liverpool to London was simply charming ! Every foot of ground seemed to be under the most careful culti- vation . The lovely green fields dotted with ...
... seated chairs , and here and there garnet plush circular sofas . The ride from Liverpool to London was simply charming ! Every foot of ground seemed to be under the most careful culti- vation . The lovely green fields dotted with ...
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... seated at small tables , are crowds of ladies and gentlemen sipping their favorite beverage from their dainty wine - glasses ; and the dis- play in the shop windows exceeds anything I ever saw elsewhere . The artistic taste in the ...
... seated at small tables , are crowds of ladies and gentlemen sipping their favorite beverage from their dainty wine - glasses ; and the dis- play in the shop windows exceeds anything I ever saw elsewhere . The artistic taste in the ...
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... seated . The proprietor wound up what appeared to be a secretary or book - case , and it at once began to play in exact imitation of a pipe organ accom- panied by a full orchestra . It would play twenty pieces of classical music . Why ...
... seated . The proprietor wound up what appeared to be a secretary or book - case , and it at once began to play in exact imitation of a pipe organ accom- panied by a full orchestra . It would play twenty pieces of classical music . Why ...
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... seated on a stump , knitting and watching two cows pasture ; others standing in the streets knitting , riding in carts knitting , carrying baskets filled with lunch and bottles of wine on their heads , knitting . I began to think that ...
... seated on a stump , knitting and watching two cows pasture ; others standing in the streets knitting , riding in carts knitting , carrying baskets filled with lunch and bottles of wine on their heads , knitting . I began to think that ...
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... seated on the curb- stones ( perfectly indifferent to the passers - by ) giving their chil- dren various acts of attention , such as searching for and ruth- lessly slaying the tenants of the upper story , etc. NAPLES . 47.
... seated on the curb- stones ( perfectly indifferent to the passers - by ) giving their chil- dren various acts of attention , such as searching for and ruth- lessly slaying the tenants of the upper story , etc. NAPLES . 47.
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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.