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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... never travelled further than Ramsgate , can have little more to learn therefrom . " Give us some new thing , " cries the tired world , as the Athenians cried of old . They ask in vain , on this side the grave there is no new thing MILAN ...
... never travelled further than Ramsgate , can have little more to learn therefrom . " Give us some new thing , " cries the tired world , as the Athenians cried of old . They ask in vain , on this side the grave there is no new thing MILAN ...
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... not see again , and who for his part will never know that the Englishman standing by his side there upon a certain winter evening took note of him and wondered . CHAPTER II A TUSCAN WINE - FARM FOR generations past 12 A WINTER PILGRIMAGE.
... not see again , and who for his part will never know that the Englishman standing by his side there upon a certain winter evening took note of him and wondered . CHAPTER II A TUSCAN WINE - FARM FOR generations past 12 A WINTER PILGRIMAGE.
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... never a work that has a spark of the old Promethean fire , which elevates its student , or moves him - at any rate as art should move . Of painting and buildings is it not the same ? Where has the genius flown and will it ever return ...
... never a work that has a spark of the old Promethean fire , which elevates its student , or moves him - at any rate as art should move . Of painting and buildings is it not the same ? Where has the genius flown and will it ever return ...
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... never tasted better vinegar . To return , my host finds that he can make a fair profit on his Chianti by charging eighteen shillings a dozen for it delivered in London . At least this was so , but since Sir Michael Hicks - Beach has ...
... never tasted better vinegar . To return , my host finds that he can make a fair profit on his Chianti by charging eighteen shillings a dozen for it delivered in London . At least this was so , but since Sir Michael Hicks - Beach has ...
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... never as yet lost a single article . Again , consider the much - vaunted warming of trains . All I can say is that for my part far , far rather would I travel in the coldest compartment than in the heated infernos with every air - hole ...
... never as yet lost a single article . Again , consider the much - vaunted warming of trains . All I can say is that for my part far , far rather would I travel in the coldest compartment than in the heated infernos with every air - hole ...
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