New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, 102. köideThomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Thomas Hood, Theodore Edward Hook, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1854 |
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... beautiful plain , dotted with mimosas , and stretching far away to the south - south - west . It was only thirty minutes past three when we reached the foot of the first hills , barely thirty yards high , which form the mouth of the Wad ...
... beautiful plain , dotted with mimosas , and stretching far away to the south - south - west . It was only thirty minutes past three when we reached the foot of the first hills , barely thirty yards high , which form the mouth of the Wad ...
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... beautiful garden , made , Cap- tain Chasseloup says , with his own hands , is shaped like the Croix de la Legion d'Honneur ; he wears one you perceive , only smaller , on his own breast . Those parterres , too , filled with red and blue ...
... beautiful garden , made , Cap- tain Chasseloup says , with his own hands , is shaped like the Croix de la Legion d'Honneur ; he wears one you perceive , only smaller , on his own breast . Those parterres , too , filled with red and blue ...
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... beautiful scent of the new - made hay around , and says he gets quite sunburnt in his journeys to and fro , and whenever he stays late in London , he congra- tulates himself on having no money , so that he cannot be robbed on his way ...
... beautiful scent of the new - made hay around , and says he gets quite sunburnt in his journeys to and fro , and whenever he stays late in London , he congra- tulates himself on having no money , so that he cannot be robbed on his way ...
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... beautiful creature makes when she is talking politics , with her tresses flowing about her shoulders , and examining that face in the glass , which does such execution upon all the rude standers - by . How prettily does she divide her ...
... beautiful creature makes when she is talking politics , with her tresses flowing about her shoulders , and examining that face in the glass , which does such execution upon all the rude standers - by . How prettily does she divide her ...
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... beautiful villas stand all along the shore ; enchant- ing gardens gratify the eye ; and little fairy palaces , used as summer- houses , gladden the imagination - I should like to inhabit one with you . The waters of the Bosphorus are as ...
... beautiful villas stand all along the shore ; enchant- ing gardens gratify the eye ; and little fairy palaces , used as summer- houses , gladden the imagination - I should like to inhabit one with you . The waters of the Bosphorus are as ...
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