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... Apennine - girdled seats of dead civilisation , in which nations , arts , and religions have gone by and left but few traces , —some wrecks of giant walls , some excavated tombs , some shrines , where monks still sing and pray above the ...
... Apennine - girdled seats of dead civilisation , in which nations , arts , and religions have gone by and left but few traces , —some wrecks of giant walls , some excavated tombs , some shrines , where monks still sing and pray above the ...
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... Apennines . It was there that he learned the tongues of beasts and birds , and preached them sermons . Stretched for hours motionless on the bare rocks , coloured like them and rough like them in his brown peasant's serge , 1 Dante ...
... Apennines . It was there that he learned the tongues of beasts and birds , and preached them sermons . Stretched for hours motionless on the bare rocks , coloured like them and rough like them in his brown peasant's serge , 1 Dante ...
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... Apennines , but very rarely in Switzerland . It is of a pure green colour , absolutely like Indian jade , foaming round the granite boulders , and gliding over smooth slabs of polished stone , and eddying into still , deep pools fringed ...
... Apennines , but very rarely in Switzerland . It is of a pure green colour , absolutely like Indian jade , foaming round the granite boulders , and gliding over smooth slabs of polished stone , and eddying into still , deep pools fringed ...
Page 38
... Apennines and the chalk hills of the western coast of Central Italy . Seen from the eminence of some old Tuscan turret , this champaign country has a stern and arid aspect . The earth is gray and dusty , the forms of hill and valley are ...
... Apennines and the chalk hills of the western coast of Central Italy . Seen from the eminence of some old Tuscan turret , this champaign country has a stern and arid aspect . The earth is gray and dusty , the forms of hill and valley are ...
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... Apennines unrivalled in its width . From cloudlike Radicofani , above Siena in the west , to snow - capped Monte Catria , beneath whose summit Dante spent those sad- dest months of solitude in 1313 , the mountains curve con- tinuously ...
... Apennines unrivalled in its width . From cloudlike Radicofani , above Siena in the west , to snow - capped Monte Catria , beneath whose summit Dante spent those sad- dest months of solitude in 1313 , the mountains curve con- tinuously ...
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