Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in Italy, 1819-1822: With Illustrations of the Present State of Religion in that Country |
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... covered from my severe and long - continued illness , as to think myself able to follow those much - loved relatives to Italy , with whom , until this painful separation , I have shared all my joys and sorrows . My heart sometimes fails ...
... covered from my severe and long - continued illness , as to think myself able to follow those much - loved relatives to Italy , with whom , until this painful separation , I have shared all my joys and sorrows . My heart sometimes fails ...
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... covering up to their knees . They also wear a kind of hood , or rather , a loose piece of scarlet stuff , over the head : the effect is gay when a number of women are together . No- thing can be more romantic than the situation of this ...
... covering up to their knees . They also wear a kind of hood , or rather , a loose piece of scarlet stuff , over the head : the effect is gay when a number of women are together . No- thing can be more romantic than the situation of this ...
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... covered with an awning , to take us along the coast in the morning ; and in the even- ing , we go in a little carriage , drawn by a donkey . We take many pleasant excursions , sometimes landing from our boat to examine the caverns ...
... covered with an awning , to take us along the coast in the morning ; and in the even- ing , we go in a little carriage , drawn by a donkey . We take many pleasant excursions , sometimes landing from our boat to examine the caverns ...
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... covered with red spots . On our return , we found a large party assembled on our terrace , consisting of all our En- glish acquaintances , the Princess Giracci and her family , Baroness H— and her daughter , and a very kind little ...
... covered with red spots . On our return , we found a large party assembled on our terrace , consisting of all our En- glish acquaintances , the Princess Giracci and her family , Baroness H— and her daughter , and a very kind little ...
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... covered over with a solid roof , with a row of arches in front . Sunday . There was a great Festa at Meta , held in honour of the Madonna del Lauro , an image of the virgin and child found under a laurel tree ; and said , like Diana of ...
... covered over with a solid roof , with a row of arches in front . Sunday . There was a great Festa at Meta , held in honour of the Madonna del Lauro , an image of the virgin and child found under a laurel tree ; and said , like Diana of ...
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Popular passages
Page 2 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 57 - The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Page 97 - Arches on arches ! as it were that Rome, Collecting the chief trophies of her line, Would build up all her triumphs in one dome, Her Coliseum stands ; the moonbeams shine As 'twere its natural torches, for divine Should be the light which streams here, to illume This long-explored but still exhaustless mine Of contemplation...
Page 98 - It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away.
Page xiii - He maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; So he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Page 220 - Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, And naked shall I return thither : The LOED gave, and the LORD hath taken away ; Blessed be the name of the LORD.
Page 176 - ... that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe according to the working of his mighty power, .which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead...
Page 282 - Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Page xiii - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 98 - But when the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost arch, and gently pauses there; When the stars twinkle through the loops of time, And the low night-breeze waves along the air The...