The Writings of Mark TwainHarper & brothers, 1899 |
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Pagina 9
... picture of St. Michael vanquishing Satan a picture which is so beautiful that I cannot but think it belongs to the reviled " Renaissance , withstanding I believe they told us one of the ancient old masters painted it — and then we ...
... picture of St. Michael vanquishing Satan a picture which is so beautiful that I cannot but think it belongs to the reviled " Renaissance , withstanding I believe they told us one of the ancient old masters painted it — and then we ...
Pagina 14
... picture that really holds one's attention ; its beauty is fasci- nating . It is fine enough to be a Renaissance . A remark I made a while ago suggests a thought — and a hope . Is it not possible that the reason I find such charms in ...
... picture that really holds one's attention ; its beauty is fasci- nating . It is fine enough to be a Renaissance . A remark I made a while ago suggests a thought — and a hope . Is it not possible that the reason I find such charms in ...
Pagina 15
Mark Twain. " " set in the midst of the tempest of pictures one finds in the vast galleries of the Roman palaces , would I think it so handsome ? If , up to this time , I had seen only one " old master in each palace , instead of acres ...
Mark Twain. " " set in the midst of the tempest of pictures one finds in the vast galleries of the Roman palaces , would I think it so handsome ? If , up to this time , I had seen only one " old master in each palace , instead of acres ...
Pagina 16
... pictures , also - even of monks looking up in sacred ecstasy , and monks looking down in medita- tion , and monks skirmishing for something to eat- and therefore I drop ill - nature to thank the papal government for so jealously ...
... pictures , also - even of monks looking up in sacred ecstasy , and monks looking down in medita- tion , and monks skirmishing for something to eat- and therefore I drop ill - nature to thank the papal government for so jealously ...
Pagina 18
... pictures painted by the old masters , in order to dis- courage the sale of those in the private collections . I am satisfied , also , that genuine old masters hardly exist at all , in America , because the cheapest and most ...
... pictures painted by the old masters , in order to dis- courage the sale of those in the private collections . I am satisfied , also , that genuine old masters hardly exist at all , in America , because the cheapest and most ...
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The Writings of Mark Twain: The innocents abroad; or, The new Pilgrims' progress Mark Twain Fragmentweergave - 1977 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 206 - And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus; and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven; and he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
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 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 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.
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 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.