Curious Questions in History, Literature, Art, and Social Life: Designed as a Manual of General Information, Volume 1The author, 1886 - 372 halaman |
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... Lady Hester Stanhope ? Page 256 . 205. What is a clepsydra ? Page 258 . 206. Of what statue did Pope Clement XIV . say , " He would speak did not the rule of his order for- bid " ? Page 261 . 207. What king could not speak the language ...
... Lady Hester Stanhope ? Page 256 . 205. What is a clepsydra ? Page 258 . 206. Of what statue did Pope Clement XIV . say , " He would speak did not the rule of his order for- bid " ? Page 261 . 207. What king could not speak the language ...
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... Ladies ' Peace " ? Page 318 . 248. What authors have been made famous by one work ? Page 319 . 249. What gave rise to the Roman School of Art ? Page 320 . 250. What and where is the Sacro Catino ? Page 320 . 251. Who was the last of the ...
... Ladies ' Peace " ? Page 318 . 248. What authors have been made famous by one work ? Page 319 . 249. What gave rise to the Roman School of Art ? Page 320 . 250. What and where is the Sacro Catino ? Page 320 . 251. Who was the last of the ...
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... ladies , and for many things it is more valuable than gold . Smokers use amber as mouthpieces for pipes , and very large quantities of it are sent to China to be made into idols , etc. 13. A QUEEN WHO DRANK FROM A CUP MADE OF A HUMAN ...
... ladies , and for many things it is more valuable than gold . Smokers use amber as mouthpieces for pipes , and very large quantities of it are sent to China to be made into idols , etc. 13. A QUEEN WHO DRANK FROM A CUP MADE OF A HUMAN ...
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... lady , Rebecca Gratz by name , of an honorable . Jewish family of Philadelphia . She was born on the 4th of March , 1781 , and in her younger days , and even beyond middle life , possessed singular beauty . She was noted for her ...
... lady , Rebecca Gratz by name , of an honorable . Jewish family of Philadelphia . She was born on the 4th of March , 1781 , and in her younger days , and even beyond middle life , possessed singular beauty . She was noted for her ...
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... in some particulars than the written history , of the invasion and conquest of England by the Normans in 1066 . Tradition asserts it to be the work of Matilda - wife of William the Conqueror - and the ladies of her CURIOUS QUESTIONS . 35.
... in some particulars than the written history , of the invasion and conquest of England by the Normans in 1066 . Tradition asserts it to be the work of Matilda - wife of William the Conqueror - and the ladies of her CURIOUS QUESTIONS . 35.
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Halaman 164 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Halaman 181 - THE harp that once through TARA'S halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on TARA'S walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise, Now feel that pulse no more ! n.
Halaman 253 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death And Love can never lose its own...
Halaman 5 - It might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count, I took no note, I had no hope my eyes to raise, And clear them of their dreary mote...
Halaman 4 - That father perished at the stake For tenets he would not forsake; And for the same his lineal race In darkness found a dwelling-place. We were seven — who now are one, Six in youth, and one in age...
Halaman 3 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Halaman 70 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Halaman 15 - Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor: and this was a testimony in Israel.
Halaman 77 - Trembling, I listened: the summer sun Had the chill of snow; For I knew she was telling the bees of one Gone on the journey we all must go! Then I said to myself, 'My Mary weeps For the dead to-day: Haply her blind old grandsire sleeps The fret and the pain of his age away.
Halaman 256 - The outward wayward life we see, The hidden springs we may not know. Nor is it given us to discern What threads the fatal sisters spun, Through what ancestral years has run The sorrow with the woman born...