Spanish Pictures, Drawn with Pen and PencilReligious Tract Society, 1870 - Всего страниц: 200 |
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... seems to have passed into a new continent rather than a new country . Elsewhere the characteristic differences of neighbouring nations melt into nations melt into one another by almost imperceptible degrees . The frontier between France ...
... seems to have passed into a new continent rather than a new country . Elsewhere the characteristic differences of neighbouring nations melt into nations melt into one another by almost imperceptible degrees . The frontier between France ...
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... seem like oases in an arid waste . Probably less than one half of the soil is under cultivation . Certainly the general aspect of the country is that of utter sterility and barrenness . This impression is rendered yet more intense by ...
... seem like oases in an arid waste . Probably less than one half of the soil is under cultivation . Certainly the general aspect of the country is that of utter sterility and barrenness . This impression is rendered yet more intense by ...
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... seems to be to make his city as much like Paris as possible . But Parisian civilisation and activity are merely a thin veneer . Beneath the surface , and in all matters of business , Madrid is as slow and stagnant as ever . Some of the ...
... seems to be to make his city as much like Paris as possible . But Parisian civilisation and activity are merely a thin veneer . Beneath the surface , and in all matters of business , Madrid is as slow and stagnant as ever . Some of the ...
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... seems to have remained unchanged since the days of the Moors ; and even railway travelling partakes of the drowsy ... seem to wander aimlessly over hill and valley , and break off in the middle , like a cattle track rather than a highway ...
... seems to have remained unchanged since the days of the Moors ; and even railway travelling partakes of the drowsy ... seem to wander aimlessly over hill and valley , and break off in the middle , like a cattle track rather than a highway ...
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... seems probable that the lighthouse just outside the town was already in existence at the time of the Roman occupation . In the early maritime history of England it holds an important place as the Groyne - a corruption of the French name ...
... seems probable that the lighthouse just outside the town was already in existence at the time of the Roman occupation . In the early maritime history of England it holds an important place as the Groyne - a corruption of the French name ...
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Стр. 179 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Стр. 39 - My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery ; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people.
Стр. 34 - It was about the lovely close of a warm summer's day, There came a gallant merchant ship full sail to Plymouth bay ; The crew had seen Castile's black fleet, beyond Aurigny's isle, At earliest twilight, on the waves, lie heaving many a mile.
Стр. 36 - Save and deliver us, we humbly beseech thee, from the hands of our enemies, abate their pride, assuage their malice, and confound their devices ; that we, being armed with thy defence, may be preserved evermore from all perils, to glorify thee, who art the only giver of all victory ; through the merits of thy only Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Стр. 136 - When one looks upon the fairy tracery of the peristyles, and the apparently fragile fretwork of the walls, it is difficult to believe that so much has survived the 'wear and tear of centuries, the shocks of earthquakes, the violence of war, and the quiet, though no less baneful, pilferings of the tasteful traveller : it is almost sufficient to excuse the popular tradition, that the whole is protected by a magic charm.
Стр. 39 - This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea. . . . This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth.
Стр. 84 - Lord cometh out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity : the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Стр. 40 - I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.
Стр. 35 - Parma ; for with the grace of God, if we live, I doubt it not but ere it be long so to handle the matter with the Duke of Sidonia as he shall wish himself at St. Mary Port among his orange trees.
Стр. 41 - O'er the grave where our hero we buried We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeams' misty light And the lantern dimly burning.