Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania: 1 (1820)Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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... observe the efforts made by Great Britain to recover this ally from such a state of national degradation . By her influence Ferdinand had resigned the authority , though her tained the name of king : the queen , who had too long ...
... observe the efforts made by Great Britain to recover this ally from such a state of national degradation . By her influence Ferdinand had resigned the authority , though her tained the name of king : the queen , who had too long ...
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... observed in those beautiful specimens from the pediments of the Parthenon , which now adorn our national Museum . Leaving these Olympian ruins , the scattered fragments of whose vast entablature and capitals appear at first sight like ...
... observed in those beautiful specimens from the pediments of the Parthenon , which now adorn our national Museum . Leaving these Olympian ruins , the scattered fragments of whose vast entablature and capitals appear at first sight like ...
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... observe with surprise , enor- mous fragments of those celebrated walls which formed a most dis- tinguishing feature in the prospect of Agrigentum † ; so immense were these ramparts , that they appear to have been used even for ...
... observe with surprise , enor- mous fragments of those celebrated walls which formed a most dis- tinguishing feature in the prospect of Agrigentum † ; so immense were these ramparts , that they appear to have been used even for ...
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... observed long trains of both sexes , with gar- lands of flowers , following their coryphæus or leader , whose solo verse was repeated by the rest in chorus , and which was interrupted only for the purpose of casting a few jeers and ...
... observed long trains of both sexes , with gar- lands of flowers , following their coryphæus or leader , whose solo verse was repeated by the rest in chorus , and which was interrupted only for the purpose of casting a few jeers and ...
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... observed the great doors gently open , and several persons drawing back , as if alarmed at the presence of the soldiers : presently a general tumult was observed through the grated windows of the building , to which a dead silence ...
... observed the great doors gently open , and several persons drawing back , as if alarmed at the presence of the soldiers : presently a general tumult was observed through the grated windows of the building , to which a dead silence ...
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