American Quarterly Review, Volume 21Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 - Serial publications |
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... seen but flying buttresses , pyramids , pinnacles , and statues . " The ornaments which were not essential parts of the edifice were adapted to its style ; the tombs were of Gothic fashion , and the church , which covered them like an ...
... seen but flying buttresses , pyramids , pinnacles , and statues . " The ornaments which were not essential parts of the edifice were adapted to its style ; the tombs were of Gothic fashion , and the church , which covered them like an ...
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... seen the bed , the chamber , the vaults hung with black , the block , the head of Mary , into which the executioner , by his first unskilful stroke of the axe , had driven a portion of the unfor- tunate victim's coif and gray hair ? May ...
... seen the bed , the chamber , the vaults hung with black , the block , the head of Mary , into which the executioner , by his first unskilful stroke of the axe , had driven a portion of the unfor- tunate victim's coif and gray hair ? May ...
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... seen Henry VIII . , his re- forms , his destructive hand laid upon their monasteries , his court fools , his wives , his mistresses , and his executioners . When the poet died , Charles I. was in his sixteenth year . " Thus Shakspeare ...
... seen Henry VIII . , his re- forms , his destructive hand laid upon their monasteries , his court fools , his wives , his mistresses , and his executioners . When the poet died , Charles I. was in his sixteenth year . " Thus Shakspeare ...
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... seen death ? is this the way I must return to native dust ? ' " Observe that , in the scriptures , nothing is said of Adam after his fall ; silence spreads over the nine hundred and thirty years between his sin and his death . It would ...
... seen death ? is this the way I must return to native dust ? ' " Observe that , in the scriptures , nothing is said of Adam after his fall ; silence spreads over the nine hundred and thirty years between his sin and his death . It would ...
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furiously . Amidst the most frightful riot of a sitting , I have seen him in the tribune , dark , hideous , and ... seen a hundred square leagues of country converted into a wilderness of ashes . " The two Frances met on this soil ...
furiously . Amidst the most frightful riot of a sitting , I have seen him in the tribune , dark , hideous , and ... seen a hundred square leagues of country converted into a wilderness of ashes . " The two Frances met on this soil ...
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