Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-book: With Notes, Questions, Etc. for Home and School UseGinn & Company, 1891 - 119 Seiten |
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... tombs . The approach to the abbey through these gloomy monastic remains prepares the mind for its solemn contem- plation . The cloisters still retain something of the quiet and seclusion of former days . The gray walls are discolored by ...
... tombs . The approach to the abbey through these gloomy monastic remains prepares the mind for its solemn contem- plation . The cloisters still retain something of the quiet and seclusion of former days . The gray walls are discolored by ...
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... tombs , and telling the lapse of the hour , which , like a billow , has rolled us onward towards the grave . I pursued ... tomb ; while every footfall whispers along the walls , and chatters among the sepulchres , making us more sensible ...
... tombs , and telling the lapse of the hour , which , like a billow , has rolled us onward towards the grave . I pursued ... tomb ; while every footfall whispers along the walls , and chatters among the sepulchres , making us more sensible ...
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... tombs of friends and com- panions ; for indeed there is something of companionship be- tween the author and the reader . Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history , which is contin- 100 ually growing faint and ...
... tombs of friends and com- panions ; for indeed there is something of companionship be- tween the author and the reader . Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history , which is contin- 100 ually growing faint and ...
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... tomb on which lay the effigy of a knight in complete armor . A large buckler was on one 130 arm ; the hands were pressed together in supplication upon the breast ; the face was almost covered by the morion ; the legs were crossed , in ...
... tomb on which lay the effigy of a knight in complete armor . A large buckler was on one 130 arm ; the hands were pressed together in supplication upon the breast ; the face was almost covered by the morion ; the legs were crossed , in ...
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... tombs of these adventurers , decorated as they are with rude armorial bearings and Gothic sculpture . They comport with 140 the antiquated chapels in which they are generally found ; and in considering them , the imagination is apt to ...
... tombs of these adventurers , decorated as they are with rude armorial bearings and Gothic sculpture . They comport with 140 the antiquated chapels in which they are generally found ; and in considering them , the imagination is apt to ...
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