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The Life, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: Complete in One Volume

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 780 pages
...turns In a btrceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the sliver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and ail nature was silent. I will not dissemble...
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Autobiography: Illus. from His Letters, with Occasional Notes and Narratives

Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the Lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky...I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,...
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The Auto-biography of Edward Gibbon, Esq: Illustrated from His Letters, with ...

Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 pages
...turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the Lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky...I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,...
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Lives of Men of Letters and Science who Flourished in the Time of ..., Volume 2

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 566 pages
...walks in a berceau, or covered walk of x acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky...waters, and all nature was silent." — " I will not," he adds, " dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment...
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Historical Pictures of the Middle Ages, in Black and White: Made on the Spot ...

Mrs Robert Moore - 1846 - 336 pages
...turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias, -which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky...the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." It is to the successive conquests of Savoy and Berne that the paucity...
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Historical Pictures of the Middle Ages, in Black and White: Made ..., Volume 1

Alicia Moore, Wandering Artist - 1846 - 680 pages
...turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias, vhich commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky...the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." VESTIGES OF PALACES. 293 It is to the successive conquests of Savoy...
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The Auto-biography of Edward Gibbon, Esq: Illustrated from His Letters, with ...

Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the Lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silyer orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble...
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Notes of a Tour in Switzerland in the Summer of 1847

Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1848 - 394 pages
...turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky...I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,...
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Letters from Italy

J. T. Headley - 1848 - 410 pages
...turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky...the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." This remarkable passage throws open the feelings of the inner man...
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The London Anecdotes for All Readers ...

Charles Maybury Archer - 1848 - 292 pages
...turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky...the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." At a little inn at Morges, about two miles distant from Lausanne,...
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