The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship "Quaker City's" Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy LandHarper & Bros., 1899 - 333 pagina's |
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Pagina 139
... marble - topped tables , and ate fancy suppers , drank wine , and kept up a chattering din of conversation that was dazing to the senses . There was a stage at the far end , and a large orchestra ; and every now and then actors and ...
... marble - topped tables , and ate fancy suppers , drank wine , and kept up a chattering din of conversation that was dazing to the senses . There was a stage at the far end , and a large orchestra ; and every now and then actors and ...
Pagina 188
... marble temples and man- sions of the dead gleaming white from out a wilder- ness of foliage and fresh flowers . Not every city is so well peopled as this , or has so ample an area within its walls . Few palaces exist in any city that ...
... marble temples and man- sions of the dead gleaming white from out a wilder- ness of foliage and fresh flowers . Not every city is so well peopled as this , or has so ample an area within its walls . Few palaces exist in any city that ...
Pagina 190
... marble vaults of St. Denis . But among the thousands and thousands of tombs . in Père la Chaise , there is one that no man , no woman , no youth of either sex , ever passes by with- out stopping to examine . Every visitor has a sort of ...
... marble vaults of St. Denis . But among the thousands and thousands of tombs . in Père la Chaise , there is one that no man , no woman , no youth of either sex , ever passes by with- out stopping to examine . Every visitor has a sort of ...
Pagina 215
... marble pavements on the floors ( sometimes they make a mosaic work , of intricate designs , wrought in pebbles , or little fragments of marble laid in cement ) , and grand salons hung with pictures by Rubens , Guido , Titian , Paul ...
... marble pavements on the floors ( sometimes they make a mosaic work , of intricate designs , wrought in pebbles , or little fragments of marble laid in cement ) , and grand salons hung with pictures by Rubens , Guido , Titian , Paul ...
Pagina 217
... a caprice of Herodias . In this chapel is a marble chest , in which , they told us , were the ashes of St. John ; and around it was wound a chain , which , they said , had confined him when he was in The Innocents Abroad 217.
... a caprice of Herodias . In this chapel is a marble chest , in which , they told us , were the ashes of St. John ; and around it was wound a chain , which , they said , had confined him when he was in The Innocents Abroad 217.
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Pagina 179 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care. And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day. Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Pagina 143 - Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Pagina 308 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
Pagina 317 - And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Pagina 160 - If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.
Pagina 221 - And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Pagina 238 - At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down : At her feet he bowed, he fell : Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Pagina 315 - And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seaside for multitude.
Pagina 236 - And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
Pagina 302 - There is a certain bird called a Phoenix; of this there is never but one at a time: and that lives five hundred years. And when the time of its dissolution draws near, that it must die, it makes itself a nest of frankincense, and myrrh, and other spices into which when its time is fulfilled it enters and dies. 3 But its flesh putrefying, breeds a certain worm, which being nourished with the juice of the dead bird brings forth feathers...