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... night of Holy Thursday presented the most distress- ing scene of desolation and sorrow . That thick cloud of dust , which , rising above the ruins , darkened the sky like a fog , had settled on the ground . No shock was felt , and never ...
... night of Holy Thursday presented the most distress- ing scene of desolation and sorrow . That thick cloud of dust , which , rising above the ruins , darkened the sky like a fog , had settled on the ground . No shock was felt , and never ...
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... night I'll dew thy funeral hearse With my religious tears . O blessed father of a cursed son ! Thou diedst most happy , since thou livedst not To see thy son most wretched , and thy wife Pursued by him that seeks my guiltless blood . O ...
... night I'll dew thy funeral hearse With my religious tears . O blessed father of a cursed son ! Thou diedst most happy , since thou livedst not To see thy son most wretched , and thy wife Pursued by him that seeks my guiltless blood . O ...
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... night - crows in the air ; Green - bellied snakes , blue fire - drakes in the sky , And giddy flitter - mice with leather wings , And scaly beetles with their habergeons , That make a humming murmur as they fly . There in the stocks of ...
... night - crows in the air ; Green - bellied snakes , blue fire - drakes in the sky , And giddy flitter - mice with leather wings , And scaly beetles with their habergeons , That make a humming murmur as they fly . There in the stocks of ...
Page 76
... night long . " CHAP . VI . STRAY ESSAYS . " WELL , my love , ” said Egeria one morning to her Lord , when he returned from his customary walk , and found her engaged with a number of manuscripts before her , " I have been looking over ...
... night long . " CHAP . VI . STRAY ESSAYS . " WELL , my love , ” said Egeria one morning to her Lord , when he returned from his customary walk , and found her engaged with a number of manuscripts before her , " I have been looking over ...
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... night , " said the Bachelor , " you were speak- ing in commendation of Sidney's Arcadia ; I have since thought it somewhat remarkable , that although all scholars , well read in English authors , regard the writers of Queen Elizabeth's ...
... night , " said the Bachelor , " you were speak- ing in commendation of Sidney's Arcadia ; I have since thought it somewhat remarkable , that although all scholars , well read in English authors , regard the writers of Queen Elizabeth's ...
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