The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Том 4Francis S. Wiggins, 1834 |
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... heights of Mount St. Angelo , whose rocky summit is ornamented by a small white hermitage , the eye can take in the towns of Massa , of Sorrento , ( the birth - place of the poet Tasso , ) of Vico , of Castellamare , and many villages ...
... heights of Mount St. Angelo , whose rocky summit is ornamented by a small white hermitage , the eye can take in the towns of Massa , of Sorrento , ( the birth - place of the poet Tasso , ) of Vico , of Castellamare , and many villages ...
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... height and closeness of the lines of buildings , that luminary never shines . In some of those streets a man may stand in the middle , and , by stretching out his arms , touch the houses on either side of him . Here inhabit the poorer ...
... height and closeness of the lines of buildings , that luminary never shines . In some of those streets a man may stand in the middle , and , by stretching out his arms , touch the houses on either side of him . Here inhabit the poorer ...
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... heights to which he soars , looking abroad , at one glance , on an immeasurable ex- panse of forests , fields , lakes , and ocean , deep below him , he appears indifferent to the little localities of change of seasons ; as in a few ...
... heights to which he soars , looking abroad , at one glance , on an immeasurable ex- panse of forests , fields , lakes , and ocean , deep below him , he appears indifferent to the little localities of change of seasons ; as in a few ...
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... height of twenty feet , tapering gradu- ally towards the extremity , which is surmounted by a flowing plume . Paper was prepared from the inner bark of the stem by dividing it with a kind of needle into thin plates or pellicles , each ...
... height of twenty feet , tapering gradu- ally towards the extremity , which is surmounted by a flowing plume . Paper was prepared from the inner bark of the stem by dividing it with a kind of needle into thin plates or pellicles , each ...
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... height to the distance of 1458 feet from the mouth ; the travellers on turning round , were struck with the singularly beautiful ap- pearance which a hill covered with the richest vegeta- tion , immediately fronting the entrance of the ...
... height to the distance of 1458 feet from the mouth ; the travellers on turning round , were struck with the singularly beautiful ap- pearance which a hill covered with the richest vegeta- tion , immediately fronting the entrance of the ...
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