Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Том 17 |
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... Marietta ; ' and , as if there were magic in the very names to soothe her , she now took the arm of her son with a look of gratified affection . ' Little Dominic indeed ! A great tall young man of twenty - my pupil and successor ! He is ...
... Marietta ; ' and , as if there were magic in the very names to soothe her , she now took the arm of her son with a look of gratified affection . ' Little Dominic indeed ! A great tall young man of twenty - my pupil and successor ! He is ...
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... Marietta , ' said her father somewhat gravely ; ' where have you been ? ' At the Grimani Palace , father , ' she answered . ' Marietta , Marietta , ' returned Jacopo , as with his daughter they took the way to the eating - room , you ...
... Marietta , ' said her father somewhat gravely ; ' where have you been ? ' At the Grimani Palace , father , ' she answered . ' Marietta , Marietta , ' returned Jacopo , as with his daughter they took the way to the eating - room , you ...
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... Marietta , who had hitherto been modestly silent , ' how can you - you , the mother of the Tintoretto - ask whether talent elevates ? ' ' Tell me , you little goose , ' said the mother Robusti , ' has your father been made a nobleman ...
... Marietta , who had hitherto been modestly silent , ' how can you - you , the mother of the Tintoretto - ask whether talent elevates ? ' ' Tell me , you little goose , ' said the mother Robusti , ' has your father been made a nobleman ...
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... Marietta , if you have no grief or care , why are you becoming so thin , so pale , as if withering before my very eyes ? ' A gentle knock interrupted the conversation , and , happily for Marietta , spared her a reply . She jumped up ...
... Marietta , if you have no grief or care , why are you becoming so thin , so pale , as if withering before my very eyes ? ' A gentle knock interrupted the conversation , and , happily for Marietta , spared her a reply . She jumped up ...
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... Marietta with the air of one who had suddenly been relieved from some heavy weight of care . IV . THE MORNING WALK All were yet asleep in the house of the artist - even the Tintoretto , usually so early a riser ; indeed , even the sun ...
... Marietta with the air of one who had suddenly been relieved from some heavy weight of care . IV . THE MORNING WALK All were yet asleep in the house of the artist - even the Tintoretto , usually so early a riser ; indeed , even the sun ...
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Страница 6 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission...
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Страница 28 - No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible ; and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering in, And gliding up her streets as in a dream, So smoothly, silently — by many a dome Mosque-like, and many a stately portico, The statues ranged along an azure sky ; By many a pile in more than eastern splendour, Of old the residence of merchant kings...
Страница 29 - ... his happiest days. His friends in this part of the country never saw him more full of intellectual vigour and colloquial animation, never more delightful or more instructive, than in his last visit to Scotland in autumn, 1817. Indeed, it was after that time that he applied himself, with all the ardour of early life, to the invention of a machine for mechanically copying all sorts of sculpture and statuary, and distributed among his friends some of its earliest performances, as the productions...
Страница 24 - At his first coming on board us, he had so much forgot his language, for want of use, that we could scarce understand him, for he seemed to speak his words by halves.