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... A sadness round ; yet one I would not lose ; Being in unison with all things else In this , this land of shadows , where we live -- More in past time than present , where the ground , League beyond league , like one great cemetery ...
... A sadness round ; yet one I would not lose ; Being in unison with all things else In this , this land of shadows , where we live -- More in past time than present , where the ground , League beyond league , like one great cemetery ...
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... the modern Campagna forms a melancholy contrast to the glory of ancient Latium . Ill - governed and infested by the pestilence and banditti , it offers entire tracts of uncultivated land , and of pale and sickly inhabitants .
... the modern Campagna forms a melancholy contrast to the glory of ancient Latium . Ill - governed and infested by the pestilence and banditti , it offers entire tracts of uncultivated land , and of pale and sickly inhabitants .
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The head land jutting out too far into the sea , we were compel- led to climb over the top , three hundred feet high ; but the view of Port Jackson and its hundred coves , its bold and fearful heads , with the coast to the north ...
The head land jutting out too far into the sea , we were compel- led to climb over the top , three hundred feet high ; but the view of Port Jackson and its hundred coves , its bold and fearful heads , with the coast to the north ...
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Flowers | 16 |
Letters to the Students of Glasgow by T Campbell Letter VI 1 VII | 97 |
Landors Imaginary Conversations | 143 |
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