Dreamthorp: a Book of Essays Written in the CountryStrahan, 1863 - 296 páginas |
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... look at my picture . On the walls of the next Academy's Exhibition will hang nothing half so beautiful ! My village is , I think , a special favourite of sum- mer's . Every window - sill in it she touches with colour and fragrance ...
... look at my picture . On the walls of the next Academy's Exhibition will hang nothing half so beautiful ! My village is , I think , a special favourite of sum- mer's . Every window - sill in it she touches with colour and fragrance ...
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... look out on the landscape and murmur the simple lines . But why do death and dying obtrude themselves at the present moment ? On the turret opposite , about the distance of a gun- shot , is as pretty a sight as eye could wish to see ...
... look out on the landscape and murmur the simple lines . But why do death and dying obtrude themselves at the present moment ? On the turret opposite , about the distance of a gun- shot , is as pretty a sight as eye could wish to see ...
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... looks like a blossom springing out of a crevice on the ruined steps . He gives her a flower , and she bows her face down over it almost to her knees . What did the flower say ? Is it to hide a blush ? He looks delighted ; and I almost ...
... looks like a blossom springing out of a crevice on the ruined steps . He gives her a flower , and she bows her face down over it almost to her knees . What did the flower say ? Is it to hide a blush ? He looks delighted ; and I almost ...
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... look wise , and Beauty , who is something of a coquette , and of an exacting turn of mind , and likes attentions , gets disgusted with our wisdom or our stupidity , and goes off in a huff . Let the baggage go ! The ruined chapel adjoins ...
... look wise , and Beauty , who is something of a coquette , and of an exacting turn of mind , and likes attentions , gets disgusted with our wisdom or our stupidity , and goes off in a huff . Let the baggage go ! The ruined chapel adjoins ...
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... look at often , and try to conjecture what it commemorates . With all my fancies , I can get no further than the old story of love and death . There , on the slab , the white figures sleep ; marble hands , folded in prayer , on marble ...
... look at often , and try to conjecture what it commemorates . With all my fancies , I can get no further than the old story of love and death . There , on the slab , the white figures sleep ; marble hands , folded in prayer , on marble ...
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