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... centuries ago for a protection from the Moorish pirates . To these mountain fastnesses the people of the coast retreated when they descried the sails of their foes on the horizon . In Mentone , not very long ago , old men might be seen ...
... centuries ago for a protection from the Moorish pirates . To these mountain fastnesses the people of the coast retreated when they descried the sails of their foes on the horizon . In Mentone , not very long ago , old men might be seen ...
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... centuries , so that Petrarch may almost have rested beneath their shade on his way to Avignon . These veterans are cavernous with age : gnarled , split , and twisted trunks , throwing out arms . that break into a hundred branches ...
... centuries , so that Petrarch may almost have rested beneath their shade on his way to Avignon . These veterans are cavernous with age : gnarled , split , and twisted trunks , throwing out arms . that break into a hundred branches ...
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... yellow polenta , with oil and sun ad libitum . At night from Roccabruna you may see the flaring gas- lamps of the gaming - house at Monaco , that Armida's garden of the nineteenth century . It is the sunniest and THE CORNICE . 9.
... yellow polenta , with oil and sun ad libitum . At night from Roccabruna you may see the flaring gas- lamps of the gaming - house at Monaco , that Armida's garden of the nineteenth century . It is the sunniest and THE CORNICE . 9.
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John Addington Symonds. of the nineteenth century . It is the sunniest and most sheltered spot of all the coast . Long ago Lucan said of Monaco , " Non Corus in illum jus habet aut Zephyrus ; " winter never comes to nip its tangled ...
John Addington Symonds. of the nineteenth century . It is the sunniest and most sheltered spot of all the coast . Long ago Lucan said of Monaco , " Non Corus in illum jus habet aut Zephyrus ; " winter never comes to nip its tangled ...
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... century standards , were unobser- vant of natural beauties . They make but brief and general remarks upon landscapes and the like . The ποντίων τε κυμάτων ἀνήριθμον γέλασμα is very rare . But the Greeks stopped at the threshold of ...
... century standards , were unobser- vant of natural beauties . They make but brief and general remarks upon landscapes and the like . The ποντίων τε κυμάτων ἀνήριθμον γέλασμα is very rare . But the Greeks stopped at the threshold of ...
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