The Literary Reader: Typical Selections from Some of the Best British and American Authors from Shakespeare to the Present Time Chronologically Arranged : with Biographical and Critical Sketches and Numerous Notes, Etc., Etc.,Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor,, 1879 - 426 pages |
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... mountain , arrived at length on the confines of this world of spirits , but could not enter it by reason of a thick forest made up of bushes , brambles , and pointed thorns , so interwoven with one another , that it was impossible to ...
... mountain , arrived at length on the confines of this world of spirits , but could not enter it by reason of a thick forest made up of bushes , brambles , and pointed thorns , so interwoven with one another , that it was impossible to ...
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... mountains , of which the summits overhang the middle part . The only passage by which it could be entered was a cavern that passed under a rock , of which it has long been disputed whether it was the work of nature or of human industry ...
... mountains , of which the summits overhang the middle part . The only passage by which it could be entered was a cavern that passed under a rock , of which it has long been disputed whether it was the work of nature or of human industry ...
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... mountain on the northern side , and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more . The sides of the mountains were covered with trees , the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers ; every ...
... mountain on the northern side , and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more . The sides of the mountains were covered with trees , the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers ; every ...
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... mountains filled with animals , of which some were biting the herbage , and some sleeping among the bushes . . This singularity of his humor made him much observed . of the sages , in whose conversation he had formerly delighted ...
... mountains filled with animals , of which some were biting the herbage , and some sleeping among the bushes . . This singularity of his humor made him much observed . of the sages , in whose conversation he had formerly delighted ...
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... mountains ; and the face of the desert , without shade or shelter , is scorched by the direct and intense rays of a tropical sun . Instead of refreshing breezes , the winds , particu- larly from the southwest , diffuse a noxious and ...
... mountains ; and the face of the desert , without shade or shelter , is scorched by the direct and intense rays of a tropical sun . Instead of refreshing breezes , the winds , particu- larly from the southwest , diffuse a noxious and ...
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