New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 25Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth E. W. Allen, 1829 |
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Page 71
... ruins and old buildings in general , not alone for their picturesque beauty , but for the various trains of thought they excite in the mind . Every ruin has its thousand histories ; and , could the walls but speak , what tales would ...
... ruins and old buildings in general , not alone for their picturesque beauty , but for the various trains of thought they excite in the mind . Every ruin has its thousand histories ; and , could the walls but speak , what tales would ...
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... ruins , called the Hill of Infidels . These , from a close survey , and some local inquiry , comparing the country with the descriptions he had read , particularly D'Anville's , and gathering up the reports of coins found there , and ...
... ruins , called the Hill of Infidels . These , from a close survey , and some local inquiry , comparing the country with the descriptions he had read , particularly D'Anville's , and gathering up the reports of coins found there , and ...
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... ruins of the palace burnt by Alexander , rests on the testimony of Q. Curtius . Diodorus says , he abandoned the city to the soldiers - reserving only the palace . According to Arrian , Alexander burnt the castle . But these ruins never ...
... ruins of the palace burnt by Alexander , rests on the testimony of Q. Curtius . Diodorus says , he abandoned the city to the soldiers - reserving only the palace . According to Arrian , Alexander burnt the castle . But these ruins never ...
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Twentyeight and Twentynine | 9 |
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Sketches of Parisian Society Politics and Literature | 105 |
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