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" On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants : these, from little dusky flies, for such only the nake'd eye would have shown them, were raised to glorious glittering... "
Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 41
1821
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The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 446 pages
...parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants...dusky flies, for such only the naked eye would have shewn them, were raised to glorious glittering animals, stained with living purple, and with a glossy...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 13

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 594 pages
...parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottom of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants...and with a glossy gold that would have made all the labors of the loom contemptible in comparison. — I could at leisure, as they walked together, admire...
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 4

1840 - 520 pages
...walks, parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottom of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants...raised to glorious glittering animals, stained with lively purple, and with a glossy gold, that would have made all the labours of the loom contemptible...
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The Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining ...

John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants;...dusky flies, (for such only the naked eye would have shewn them,) were raised to glorious glittering animals, stained with living purple, and with a glossy...
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The Literary and Scientific Class Book: Embracing the Leading Facts and ...

Levi Washburn Leonard - New Hampshire - 1827 - 398 pages
...parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants...to glorious glittering animals, stained with living purpie, and with a glossy gold that would have made all the labours of the loom contemptible in the...
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The Literary and Scientific Class Book: Embracing the Leading Facts and ...

Levi Washburn Leonard - New Hampshire - 1828 - 362 pages
...parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants ; these from little dusky dies, for such only the naked eye would have shown them, were raised to glorious glittering animals,...
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The Christian Philosopher: Or, The Connection of Science and Philosophy with ...

Thomas Dick - Religion and science - 1829 - 414 pages
...parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants...for such only the naked eye would have shown them, wero faised to glorious glittering animals, stained with living purple, and with a glossy gold, that...
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The Literary and Scientific Class Book: Embracing the Leading Facts and ...

Levi Washburn Leonard - Science - 1830 - 350 pages
...parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottoms of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants ; these from little dusky flies, for euch only the naked eye would have shown them, were raised to glorious glittering animals, stained...
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The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information

William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...ornaments ; and the narrow spaces between were enlarged into walks, parterres, and terraces. 779 78J pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants...and with a glossy gold that would have made all the labors of the loom contemptible in the comparison. I could, at leisure, as they walked together, admire...
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The Year Book, of Daily Recreation & Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...

William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...parterres, and terraces. On the polished bottom of these, brighter than Parian marble, walked in pairs, alone, or in larger companies, the winged inhabitants...these from little dusky flies, for such only the naked eje would have shown them, were raised to glorious glittering animals, stained with living purple,...
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