A Winter Pilgrimage: Being an Account of Travels Through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus, Accomplished in the Year 1900, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1902 - 355 pages |
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... light , look down at those pale flowers . Or if you prefer it , stand upon them , they are only prim- roses , that , as Lord Beaconsfield discovered , are very good in salad . To drop the poetical - and the ultra - practical , which is ...
... light , look down at those pale flowers . Or if you prefer it , stand upon them , they are only prim- roses , that , as Lord Beaconsfield discovered , are very good in salad . To drop the poetical - and the ultra - practical , which is ...
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... light , and , swinging high in front of it , near to the towering roof indeed , like some sleepless eye watching ... lights of the candles . The voices chant still more sweetly and the music of the organ sinks low as though it too were ...
... light , and , swinging high in front of it , near to the towering roof indeed , like some sleepless eye watching ... lights of the candles . The voices chant still more sweetly and the music of the organ sinks low as though it too were ...
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... light the blue veins showed , and on the worn features so purified by time , loss , and sorrow that no beauty of their youth could rival them to - day . A pathetic sight indeed , rightly studied and understood , suggesting many thoughts ...
... light the blue veins showed , and on the worn features so purified by time , loss , and sorrow that no beauty of their youth could rival them to - day . A pathetic sight indeed , rightly studied and understood , suggesting many thoughts ...
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... light than any other with which I am acquainted . Still a few general remarks may be permitted ; for instance on the climate , which is the common property of every traveller and requires no critical training to appreciate . What a ...
... light than any other with which I am acquainted . Still a few general remarks may be permitted ; for instance on the climate , which is the common property of every traveller and requires no critical training to appreciate . What a ...
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... light on their verandahs and for quite a considerable portion of the winter look at a damp , dark cloud far below , which cloud is Florence hid in icy fog . Decidedly a villa at Fiesole , where the mists cannot creep and because of its ...
... light on their verandahs and for quite a considerable portion of the winter look at a damp , dark cloud far below , which cloud is Florence hid in icy fog . Decidedly a villa at Fiesole , where the mists cannot creep and because of its ...
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