The Writings of Mark TwainHarper, 1899 |
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Pagina 14
... age . The " old masters " ( especially in sculpture ) fairly swarm , there . I cannot write about the Vatican . I think I shall never remember anything I saw there dis- tinctly but the mummies , and the Transfiguration , by Raphael ...
... age . The " old masters " ( especially in sculpture ) fairly swarm , there . I cannot write about the Vatican . I think I shall never remember anything I saw there dis- tinctly but the mummies , and the Transfiguration , by Raphael ...
Pagina 47
... age or who made them can only be conjectured . But worn and cracked , without a history , and with the blemishing stains of numberless centuries upon them , they still mutely mock at all efforts to rival their perfections . It was a ...
... age or who made them can only be conjectured . But worn and cracked , without a history , and with the blemishing stains of numberless centuries upon them , they still mutely mock at all efforts to rival their perfections . It was a ...
Pagina 48
... ages the boys hurried out of that school , and for ages their parents hurried into that theater , and the nervous feet that have been dust and ashes for eighteen centuries have left their record for us to read to - day . I imagined I ...
... ages the boys hurried out of that school , and for ages their parents hurried into that theater , and the nervous feet that have been dust and ashes for eighteen centuries have left their record for us to read to - day . I imagined I ...
Pagina 49
... ages and ages , and will never care for the trifles and follies of life any more forever " Owing to circumstances , etc. , etc. , there will not be any performance to - night . ' Close down the curtain . Put out the lights . And so I ...
... ages and ages , and will never care for the trifles and follies of life any more forever " Owing to circumstances , etc. , etc. , there will not be any performance to - night . ' Close down the curtain . Put out the lights . And so I ...
Pagina 50
... ages that are gone , to so reduce a stone that is as hard as iron ! They had a great public bulletin - board in Pompeii -a place where announcements for gladiatorial combats , elections , and such things , were posted - not on ...
... ages that are gone , to so reduce a stone that is as hard as iron ! They had a great public bulletin - board in Pompeii -a place where announcements for gladiatorial combats , elections , and such things , were posted - not on ...
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ancient Arab Baalbec beautiful Bedouins Beirout Bible bucksheesh built called camel camel trains camp Capernaum centuries Christ Christian church Constantinople costumes crown Damascus dead desert desolate dogs donkeys dragoman earth Emperor Ephesus Esdraelon eyes feet fell Figia Galilee Gennesaret girl Grand grotto half hand head hill Holy Land horses hundred Jaffa Jerusalem journey King knew lived look Magdala marble midst miles Mount mountain Nazareth never night once palace Palestine party passed picture pilgrims plain pleasant Pompeii Prion ragged rock rode ruin sail Saladin Saviour Sea of Galilee Sebastopol seemed seen Shechem ship Smyrna spot stand stone stood strange streets Syrian Temple tent things thou thought thousand Tiberias tion to-day tomb took town true cross umbrellas valley village walked walls wonder
Populaire passages
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 306 - 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 315 - 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 312 - And they went to bury her : but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
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 313 - 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 315 - So we boiled my son, and did eat him : and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
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.