Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-book: With Notes, Questions, Etc. for Home and School UseGinn & Company, 1891 - 119 Seiten |
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... walls of the new temple of liberty , to devote themselves in any special degree to literary culture . Born with the new Republic , and through the whole of his life an ardent lover of his country , it seems no stretch of the imagination ...
... walls of the new temple of liberty , to devote themselves in any special degree to literary culture . Born with the new Republic , and through the whole of his life an ardent lover of his country , it seems no stretch of the imagination ...
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... walls . Through this dark avenue I had a distant view of the cloisters , with the figure of an old verger , in his black gown , moving along their shadowy 15 vaults , and seeming like a spectre from one of the neighboring tombs . The ...
... walls . Through this dark avenue I had a distant view of the cloisters , with the figure of an old verger , in his black gown , moving along their shadowy 15 vaults , and seeming like a spectre from one of the neighboring tombs . The ...
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... of masonry or brickwork , built to resist the horizontal thrust or pressure of another structure , as of a wall . Buttresses are much used in Gothic architecture . 60 cloisters . It is almost startling to hear this WESTMINSTER ABBEY . 13.
... of masonry or brickwork , built to resist the horizontal thrust or pressure of another structure , as of a wall . Buttresses are much used in Gothic architecture . 60 cloisters . It is almost startling to hear this WESTMINSTER ABBEY . 13.
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... walls , and chatters among the sepulchres , making us more sensible of the quiet we have interrupted . 70 It seems as if the awful nature of the place presses down upon the soul , and hushes the beholder into noiseless rever- ence . We ...
... walls , and chatters among the sepulchres , making us more sensible of the quiet we have interrupted . 70 It seems as if the awful nature of the place presses down upon the soul , and hushes the beholder into noiseless rever- ence . We ...
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... walls of the sepulchre . I continued in this way to move from tomb to tomb , and 190 from chapel to chapel . The day was gradually wearing away ; the distant tread of loiterers about the abbey grew less and less frequent ; the sweet ...
... walls of the sepulchre . I continued in this way to move from tomb to tomb , and 190 from chapel to chapel . The day was gradually wearing away ; the distant tread of loiterers about the abbey grew less and less frequent ; the sweet ...
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