The Writings of Mark TwainHarper & brothers, 1899 |
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Pagina 29
... distance - less brilliant than the stars overhead , but more softly , richly beautiful — and over all the great city the lights crossed and recrossed each other in many and many a sparkling line and curve . And back of the town , far ...
... distance - less brilliant than the stars overhead , but more softly , richly beautiful — and over all the great city the lights crossed and recrossed each other in many and many a sparkling line and curve . And back of the town , far ...
Pagina 30
... distance its dingy buildings looked white- and so , rank on rank of balconies , windows , and roofs , they piled themselves up from the blue ocean till the colossal castle of St. Elmo topped the grand white pyramid and gave the picture ...
... distance its dingy buildings looked white- and so , rank on rank of balconies , windows , and roofs , they piled themselves up from the blue ocean till the colossal castle of St. Elmo topped the grand white pyramid and gave the picture ...
Pagina 56
... Distance clothed him in a purple gloom , and added a veil of shimmering mist that so softened his rugged features that we seemed to see him through a web of silver gauze . His torch was out ; his fires were smolder- ing ; a tall column ...
... Distance clothed him in a purple gloom , and added a veil of shimmering mist that so softened his rugged features that we seemed to see him through a web of silver gauze . His torch was out ; his fires were smolder- ing ; a tall column ...
Pagina 59
... distance of five or six miles . In the valley , near the Acropolis ( the square - topped hill before spoken of ) , Athens itself could be vaguely made out with an ordinary lorgnette . Everybody was anxious to get ashore and visit these ...
... distance of five or six miles . In the valley , near the Acropolis ( the square - topped hill before spoken of ) , Athens itself could be vaguely made out with an ordinary lorgnette . Everybody was anxious to get ashore and visit these ...
Pagina 68
... distance recesses ; ea- not on the broad earth is there far down the half so beautiful ! way in the midst and moved again through the pointed with handlet the illustrious men who had fane ; and through the ages could visit it again and ...
... distance recesses ; ea- not on the broad earth is there far down the half so beautiful ! way in the midst and moved again through the pointed with handlet the illustrious men who had fane ; and through the ages could visit it again and ...
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ancient Arab Baalbec beautiful Bedouins Bosporus boys broad bucksheesh built CALIFORNIA called camel camel trains camp Capernaum centuries CHAPTER Christ Christian church Constantinople cross Damascus desert desolate dogs donkeys dragoman earth Egypt Ephesus eyes feet fell Galilee Gennesaret girls grand grotto half hand head hill Holy Land horses hundred Jaffa Jerusalem Jordan journey King knew light lived look marble midst miles Mosque Mount mountain Naples never night once palace Palestine party passed picture pilgrims plain pleasant Pompeii ragged rock rode ruin sail Samaria Saviour Sea of Galilee seemed seen Sepulchre Shechem ship Smyrna spot stand stone stood strange streets Syrian tell Temple things thou thought thousand Tiberias tion tomb took true cross UNIVE valley Vesuvius village walk walls woman 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 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 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 142 - 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 eke I will come unto thee quickly, and Will remove thy candlestick out of his.
Pagina 321 - And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver; and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
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 236 - And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
Pagina 69 - 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.