... few minutes, save where a cypress-grove on either bank throws its shadow forth — as if, like the masked skeleton at an ancient Egyptian feast, to be a silent monitor. As the temporary brightness dies away, illusion obtains complete mastery of the... Turkey, Greece and Malta - Side 27av Sir Adolphus Slade - 1837Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
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...where a cypress-grove on either bank throws its shadow forth, as if, like the masked skeleton at an Egyptian feast, to be a silent monitor. As the temporary...mother's heart for a few months, then died.) Sultana Saliheb was seventeen or eighteen years old ; not pretty, but lady like, according to the reports of... | |
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...away, illusion obtains complete mastery of the soul : you see a splash, and you look for a sea- god to rise; you hear a voice, and you listen for a Nereid's...festivity and splendour in the summer of 1834, should lie permitted to live." We shall be glad to meet our author again when he returns from his next Mediterranean... | |
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