Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-book: With Notes, Questions, Etc. for Home and School UseGinn & Company, 1891 - 119 Seiten |
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... monument of human invention , 65 which has in a manner triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the world into communion ; has estab- lished an interchange of blessings , pouring into the sterile re- gions of the north all ...
... monument of human invention , 65 which has in a manner triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the world into communion ; has estab- lished an interchange of blessings , pouring into the sterile re- gions of the north all ...
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... monument , The princes and the worthies of all sorte ; Doe not I see reformde nobilitie , Without contempt , or pride , or ostentation , And looke upon offenselesse majesty , Naked of pomp or earthly domination ? And how a play - game ...
... monument , The princes and the worthies of all sorte ; Doe not I see reformde nobilitie , Without contempt , or pride , or ostentation , And looke upon offenselesse majesty , Naked of pomp or earthly domination ? And how a play - game ...
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... monuments , and obscured the death's - heads and other funereal emblems . The sharp touches of the chisel are gone from the rich tracery of the arches ; the roses which adorned the keystones have lost 25 their leafy beauty ; everything ...
... monuments , and obscured the death's - heads and other funereal emblems . The sharp touches of the chisel are gone from the rich tracery of the arches ; the roses which adorned the keystones have lost 25 their leafy beauty ; everything ...
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... monument will cease to be a memorial . Whilst I was yet looking down upon these grave- stones , I was roused by the sound of the abbey clock , rever- berating from buttress to buttress , and echoing among the 55 41. Effigies ( Lat ...
... monument will cease to be a memorial . Whilst I was yet looking down upon these grave- stones , I was roused by the sound of the abbey clock , rever- berating from buttress to buttress , and echoing among the 55 41. Effigies ( Lat ...
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... monuments are generally simple , for the lives of literary men afford no striking themes for the sculptor . Shakespeare and Addison have statues erected to their memories ; but the greater 90 part have busts , medallions , and sometimes ...
... monuments are generally simple , for the lives of literary men afford no striking themes for the sculptor . Shakespeare and Addison have statues erected to their memories ; but the greater 90 part have busts , medallions , and sometimes ...
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