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... peasants , with good teeth and rich nice hair . They were selling flow- ers , fruit , and vegetables . They addressed us in a very kindly manner , always as " ma chère . " We saw excellent butter for ten sous per pound , a good cabbage ...
... peasants , with good teeth and rich nice hair . They were selling flow- ers , fruit , and vegetables . They addressed us in a very kindly manner , always as " ma chère . " We saw excellent butter for ten sous per pound , a good cabbage ...
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... peasant - guide knew the worth of Byron's name . This is fame . We drove round the rich wheat - field to La Haye Sainte . There is no ground in all rich Belgium so rich as this battle - field . In the spring the darkest and thickest ...
... peasant - guide knew the worth of Byron's name . This is fame . We drove round the rich wheat - field to La Haye Sainte . There is no ground in all rich Belgium so rich as this battle - field . In the spring the darkest and thickest ...
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... peasants , men , women , and children , that had not been driven clear away , came in to serve them ; but there were not enough ; and they died , burned with thirst , and their wounds gangrened , for there were not surgeons for the half ...
... peasants , men , women , and children , that had not been driven clear away , came in to serve them ; but there were not enough ; and they died , burned with thirst , and their wounds gangrened , for there were not surgeons for the half ...
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... peasantry . They were literally packed on the little place before the Cathedral . A priest was in a very high gallery with attendants , displaying the relics . This church is rich in these apocryphal treasures . The priest held up one ...
... peasantry . They were literally packed on the little place before the Cathedral . A priest was in a very high gallery with attendants , displaying the relics . This church is rich in these apocryphal treasures . The priest held up one ...
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... peasants have just begun their mowing and harvesting , and the hay and corn are all as thick as the choicest bits in our choice meadows . There were immense plantations " Formerly 150,000 pilgrims resorted to this fête , and so late as ...
... peasants have just begun their mowing and harvesting , and the hay and corn are all as thick as the choicest bits in our choice meadows . There were immense plantations " Formerly 150,000 pilgrims resorted to this fête , and so late as ...
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Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, Volume 2 Catharine Maria Sedgwick Visualização integral - 1841 |
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 74 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Página 55 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace...
Página 75 - These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that skulks behind ; Or pining L,ove shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, ,And hard Unkindness...
Página 154 - A blending of all beauties; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.