The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: The innocents abroad, or, The new Pilgrim's progressHarper & Bros., 1899 |
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Pagina xiv
... issued in 1894 ; and a third his- torical novel ' Joan of Arc , ' a reverent and sym- pathetic study of the bravest figure in all French history , printed anonymously in Harper's Magazine and then in xiv Biographical Criticism.
... issued in 1894 ; and a third his- torical novel ' Joan of Arc , ' a reverent and sym- pathetic study of the bravest figure in all French history , printed anonymously in Harper's Magazine and then in xiv Biographical Criticism.
Pagina xxvi
... French - deeper , finer , stronger . It would be hard to find in any language better specimens of pure narrative , better examples of the power of telling a story and of calling up action so that the reader cannot help but see it , than ...
... French - deeper , finer , stronger . It would be hard to find in any language better specimens of pure narrative , better examples of the power of telling a story and of calling up action so that the reader cannot help but see it , than ...
Pagina xlii
... French Cars - Why there are no Accidents - The " Old Travelers Still on the Wing - Paris at Last Seeing the Sights Monsieur Billfinger -- - CHAPTER XIII . Re - christening the Frenchman 130 140 • • · 148 -- In the Clutches of a Paris ...
... French Cars - Why there are no Accidents - The " Old Travelers Still on the Wing - Paris at Last Seeing the Sights Monsieur Billfinger -- - CHAPTER XIII . Re - christening the Frenchman 130 140 • • · 148 -- In the Clutches of a Paris ...
Pagina xliii
Mark Twain. CHAPTER XV . French National Burying - ground - The Story of Abelard and Heloise " English Spoken Here " - Imperial Honors to an American - The Over - estimated Grisette Leaving Paris . - - CHAPTER XVI . • 188 Versailles ...
Mark Twain. CHAPTER XV . French National Burying - ground - The Story of Abelard and Heloise " English Spoken Here " - Imperial Honors to an American - The Over - estimated Grisette Leaving Paris . - - CHAPTER XVI . • 188 Versailles ...
Pagina 100
... French and Spanish troops were be- sieging Gibraltar , and said she would never move from the spot till the English flag was lowered from the fortresses . If the English hadn't been gallant enough to lower the flag for a few hours one ...
... French and Spanish troops were be- sieging Gibraltar , and said she would never move from the spot till the English flag was lowered from the fortresses . If the English hadn't been gallant enough to lower the flag for a few hours one ...
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Abelard abroad American ancient Azores beautiful Blucher boat called carriage cathedral centuries CHAPTER Charlemagne church Civita Vecchia Coliseum dead deck doctor dollars donkey eyes face Fayal feet Ferguson four France French Genoa Gibraltar gondola grand half hand happy head heaven Heloise Holy hour houses Huckleberry Finn human hundred INNOCENTS ABROAD Italy knew lake land live look Louvre magnificent marble Mark Twain miles Molière mountains Naples never night old masters once painted palace Paris party passed passengers Père la Chaise picture pleasant Pompeii priests princes Pudd'nhead Wilson Rome ruins Saviour seemed seen ship side silver smoke stand steamer stone stood streets Tangier tell things thought thousand tion Titian to-day tomb took Tramp Abroad vast Venice Vesuvius walked walls wish wonder young
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Pagina 42 - 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 42 - 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 42 - 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 42 - 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 42 - 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 42 - 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 261 - THERE is a glorious City in the Sea. The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing ; and the salt sea-weed 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...
Pagina 42 - 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 42 - And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
Pagina 42 - 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.