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... thing bright or precious comes out of some pit of misery , some mine of darkness . A few miles on this side of the frontier we slept at les Echelles ; once a wretched halting - place , but now the inn is endurable . It was pitch - dark ...
... thing bright or precious comes out of some pit of misery , some mine of darkness . A few miles on this side of the frontier we slept at les Echelles ; once a wretched halting - place , but now the inn is endurable . It was pitch - dark ...
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... things not wholly unlike an English farm - house . For some stages past I had occasionally noted a splendid insect , but now the road was a live mu- seum : lizards coated with emerald flirted from under banks and stones , stag - beetles ...
... things not wholly unlike an English farm - house . For some stages past I had occasionally noted a splendid insect , but now the road was a live mu- seum : lizards coated with emerald flirted from under banks and stones , stag - beetles ...
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... things rather to see than to write about . Still one likes to note first impres- sions . This fair and frail Florence teems with objects of the " belle arti " in piazzas and galleries . Soberly speaking , there is enough here well nigh ...
... things rather to see than to write about . Still one likes to note first impres- sions . This fair and frail Florence teems with objects of the " belle arti " in piazzas and galleries . Soberly speaking , there is enough here well nigh ...
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... thing about , but which fixes your attention the catalogues give a guess at the author . The Gallery of Busts is extensive , but lacks a true nomenclature : those which are well authenticated are deeply interesting , as exhibiting the ...
... thing about , but which fixes your attention the catalogues give a guess at the author . The Gallery of Busts is extensive , but lacks a true nomenclature : those which are well authenticated are deeply interesting , as exhibiting the ...
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... things . Among the few small pictures here is the " Seggiola : " this was really painted on the bottom of a cask , the only board he had at hand . Who but Raffael Sanzio d ' Urbino could have grouped and coloured this ? But the Madon ...
... things . Among the few small pictures here is the " Seggiola : " this was really painted on the bottom of a cask , the only board he had at hand . Who but Raffael Sanzio d ' Urbino could have grouped and coloured this ? But the Madon ...
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