Mark Twain's Pleasure Trip on the ContinentJohn Camden Hotten, 1871 - 259 pagina's |
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Pagina 70
... 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 102
... marble temples and mansions of the dead gleaming white from out a wilderness 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 are so ...
... marble temples and mansions of the dead gleaming white from out a wilderness 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 are so ...
Pagina 103
... 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 without 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 without stopping to examine . Every visitor has a sort of ...
Pagina 120
... 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 122
... 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 prison . We did not desire to disbelieve these statements , and yet we could not ...
... 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 prison . We did not desire to disbelieve these statements , and yet we could not ...
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Pagina 251 - 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 45 - 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 121 - There is a glorious city in the sea; The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing; and the salt seaweed Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates! The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible: and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering in, And gliding up her streets, as in a dream, So smoothly, silently — by many a dome, Mosque-like, and many a stately portico, The statues ranged along an azure sky; By many a...
Pagina 217 - Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
Pagina 106 - LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom.
Pagina 12 - And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
Pagina 217 - For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars...
Pagina 12 - He said he was very thirsty, and asked his generous preserver to get him a cup of water. She brought him some milk, and he drank of it gratefully and lay down again, to forget in pleasant dreams his lost battle and his humbled pride. Presently when he was asleep she came softly in with a hammer and drove a hideous tent-pen down through his brain ! " For he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
Pagina 119 - A palace lifting to eternal summer Its marble walls from out a glossy bower Of coolest foliage musical with birds...