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... snow- flake , or some such flower . Violets in Greece , however , were often used for crowns : looтépavos is the epithet of Homer for Aphrodite , and of Aristophanes for Athens . some thousand feet in height . Far above all signs 2 ...
... snow- flake , or some such flower . Violets in Greece , however , were often used for crowns : looтépavos is the epithet of Homer for Aphrodite , and of Aristophanes for Athens . some thousand feet in height . Far above all signs 2 ...
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... snow , seen far away behind the hills , reminds us of an alien , unremembered winter . While dreaming there , this fancy came into my head : Polyphemus was born yonder in the Gorbio Valley . There he fed his sheep and goats , and on the ...
... snow , seen far away behind the hills , reminds us of an alien , unremembered winter . While dreaming there , this fancy came into my head : Polyphemus was born yonder in the Gorbio Valley . There he fed his sheep and goats , and on the ...
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... snow . Down the swift streamlet she danced laugh- ingly , and made herself once more bitter with the sea . But Polyphemus remained , -hungry , sad , gazing on the barren . sea , and piping to the mockery of its waves . Filled with these ...
... snow . Down the swift streamlet she danced laugh- ingly , and made herself once more bitter with the sea . But Polyphemus remained , -hungry , sad , gazing on the barren . sea , and piping to the mockery of its waves . Filled with these ...
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... snow , and beneath the snow - level to the sea they are as green as Irish or as English hills , but nearly unin- habited and uncultivated . Valleys of almost Alpine verdure are succeeded by tracts of chestnut wood and scattered pines ...
... snow , and beneath the snow - level to the sea they are as green as Irish or as English hills , but nearly unin- habited and uncultivated . Valleys of almost Alpine verdure are succeeded by tracts of chestnut wood and scattered pines ...
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... snow - peaks of the interior , huge granite crystals clothed in white , to the southern extremity of the bay , peak succeeds peak and ridge rises behind ridge in a line of wonderful variety and beauty . The atmospheric changes of light ...
... snow - peaks of the interior , huge granite crystals clothed in white , to the southern extremity of the bay , peak succeeds peak and ridge rises behind ridge in a line of wonderful variety and beauty . The atmospheric changes of light ...
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