Old Pictures of Life, Volume 2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
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... wonderful phenomena and events . Augustine had come to believe that figs when broken from the twig cried , and that the mother tree shed tears of milk over these lost babies . While Roman nationality was dying the fall of the intellect ...
... wonderful phenomena and events . Augustine had come to believe that figs when broken from the twig cried , and that the mother tree shed tears of milk over these lost babies . While Roman nationality was dying the fall of the intellect ...
Page 74
... The Greek long had its Edipus and its Antigone . Of a thousand strange things some one will be the strangest . There was a wonderful harvest of tales in the fourteenth century , and it is more than probable 74 OLD PICTURES OF LIFE .
... The Greek long had its Edipus and its Antigone . Of a thousand strange things some one will be the strangest . There was a wonderful harvest of tales in the fourteenth century , and it is more than probable 74 OLD PICTURES OF LIFE .
Page 85
... wonderful as is the courtship in the drama of Juliet it has only a faint sweetness compared with that honey which Florence distilled for Bea- trice . To us mortals , so modified by com- mon sense , the Vita Nuova reads more like the ...
... wonderful as is the courtship in the drama of Juliet it has only a faint sweetness compared with that honey which Florence distilled for Bea- trice . To us mortals , so modified by com- mon sense , the Vita Nuova reads more like the ...
Page 90
... wonderful scatter- ing of the nightingales and a great indis- position on the part of day to stand jocund on the mountain tops . All in all , those centuries were a strange combination of beauty and deformity , of beloved sweet- hearts ...
... wonderful scatter- ing of the nightingales and a great indis- position on the part of day to stand jocund on the mountain tops . All in all , those centuries were a strange combination of beauty and deformity , of beloved sweet- hearts ...
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... wonderful repub- lic ; before the west windows lay the savannahs , where grass mingled with vine and shrub ; where the dogwood excelled the magnolia in whiteness , while the mag- nolia excelled the dogwood in perfume . In one of these ...
... wonderful repub- lic ; before the west windows lay the savannahs , where grass mingled with vine and shrub ; where the dogwood excelled the magnolia in whiteness , while the mag- nolia excelled the dogwood in perfume . In one of these ...
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