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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... pointed out Tariffa , in the Straits , and some dangerous rocks , against which many a vessel has foundered . As the shades of evening drew on , we saw many lights on shore ; and a smart breeze brought us through the Straits of ...
... pointed out Tariffa , in the Straits , and some dangerous rocks , against which many a vessel has foundered . As the shades of evening drew on , we saw many lights on shore ; and a smart breeze brought us through the Straits of ...
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... pointed out to me in the magnificent Palace of the Doge , empty spaces once filled by fine statues and paintings . Little remains to be admired but the splendid architecture , and the noble Spanish marble pillars which could not be ...
... pointed out to me in the magnificent Palace of the Doge , empty spaces once filled by fine statues and paintings . Little remains to be admired but the splendid architecture , and the noble Spanish marble pillars which could not be ...
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... the gay groups , Turks , Greeks , and people of several other nations dressed in their native costumes were pointed out to us . We all retired early to bed , of 34 DIFFICULTIES PREVIOUS TO THE which I enjoyed the comfort c 5.
... the gay groups , Turks , Greeks , and people of several other nations dressed in their native costumes were pointed out to us . We all retired early to bed , of 34 DIFFICULTIES PREVIOUS TO THE which I enjoyed the comfort c 5.
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... pointed out to me the rude vestige of what was once the magnifi- cent receptacle of the ashes of some hero . There was little else to attract our attention until we ap- proached Albano ; then the country improves , and is enlivened by ...
... pointed out to me the rude vestige of what was once the magnifi- cent receptacle of the ashes of some hero . There was little else to attract our attention until we ap- proached Albano ; then the country improves , and is enlivened by ...
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... pointed out to me her own play- ground ; and shewed me also the fabulous story of Aricia , intermingled with the real one , painted on the walls of the apartments . We spend the hottest part of the day here , and we are to proceed on ...
... pointed out to me her own play- ground ; and shewed me also the fabulous story of Aricia , intermingled with the real one , painted on the walls of the apartments . We spend the hottest part of the day here , and we are to proceed on ...
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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...