Essays, Letters from AbroadMoxon, 1845 - 164 páginas |
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... ruin of many . Wedded as he was to the cause of public good , he would have hailed the changes that since his time have so signally ameliorated our institutions and opinions , each acting on the other , and which still , we may hope ...
... ruin of many . Wedded as he was to the cause of public good , he would have hailed the changes that since his time have so signally ameliorated our institutions and opinions , each acting on the other , and which still , we may hope ...
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... ruins of a fine statue , obscurely suggest to us the grandeur and perfection of the whole . Their very language - a type of the understandings of which it was the creation and the image - in variety , in simplicity , in flexibility ...
... ruins of a fine statue , obscurely suggest to us the grandeur and perfection of the whole . Their very language - a type of the understandings of which it was the creation and the image - in variety , in simplicity , in flexibility ...
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... ruins is more delightful than the mockeries of a superstition which destroyed them . " " I see nothing , " said the old man . " What do you here , then ? " A figure , only visible at Rome in night or soli- tude , and then only to be ...
... ruins is more delightful than the mockeries of a superstition which destroyed them . " " I see nothing , " said the old man . " What do you here , then ? " A figure , only visible at Rome in night or soli- tude , and then only to be ...
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... ruins , and , until the stranger accosted us , I remained silent , subdued by the greatness of what I see . " " It ... ruin . " " Like the lawny dells of soft short grass which wind among the pine forests and preci- pices in the Alps of ...
... ruins , and , until the stranger accosted us , I remained silent , subdued by the greatness of what I see . " " It ... ruin . " " Like the lawny dells of soft short grass which wind among the pine forests and preci- pices in the Alps of ...
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... ruin excites within us . Yet it is plea- sure to them to inhabit it ; and the succession of its forms as they pass , is ... ruins of human power excites an elevating sense of awfulness and beauty . It is therefore that the ocean , the ...
... ruin excites within us . Yet it is plea- sure to them to inhabit it ; and the succession of its forms as they pass , is ... ruins of human power excites an elevating sense of awfulness and beauty . It is therefore that the ocean , the ...
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