Europe, Through a Woman's EyeLutheran Publication Society, 1883 - 225 páginas |
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... soon as it was safe for the ladies to go on deck , I sat with my husband at the stern of the vessel and watched her breast the waves as they rolled up moun- tain high . Sometimes the bow of the ship would be submerged in the waves , and ...
... soon as it was safe for the ladies to go on deck , I sat with my husband at the stern of the vessel and watched her breast the waves as they rolled up moun- tain high . Sometimes the bow of the ship would be submerged in the waves , and ...
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... soon discovered that we had a very awkward gait , and even that reverend gentleman who walks so excruciatingly straight at home swayed slightly from side to side . For several days I walked as if trying to balance myself , and often ...
... soon discovered that we had a very awkward gait , and even that reverend gentleman who walks so excruciatingly straight at home swayed slightly from side to side . For several days I walked as if trying to balance myself , and often ...
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... soon after his wife , Marie Antoinette , was subjected to the same cruel fate . The French people kept this infamous instrument warm with the blood of human beings until its victims numbered more than two thousand eight hundred persons ...
... soon after his wife , Marie Antoinette , was subjected to the same cruel fate . The French people kept this infamous instrument warm with the blood of human beings until its victims numbered more than two thousand eight hundred persons ...
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... soon chatting as gayly to each other as though we were friends of long standing . They changed horses frequently , so as to drive on a keen trot all the way , requiring twenty - four horses to take us through . All teams on the street ...
... soon chatting as gayly to each other as though we were friends of long standing . They changed horses frequently , so as to drive on a keen trot all the way , requiring twenty - four horses to take us through . All teams on the street ...
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... soon ushered us into eternity . We descended the mountain on the other side , by a narrow path , to the celebrated Mauvais Pas ( the bad path ) a steep rocky mountain side , where the path is hewn in steps and flanked with an iron ...
... soon ushered us into eternity . We descended the mountain on the other side , by a narrow path , to the celebrated Mauvais Pas ( the bad path ) a steep rocky mountain side , where the path is hewn in steps and flanked with an iron ...
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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.