Life in Sweden; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1853 - Scandinavia |
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... bright as the faces of its ruddy - cheeked farmers ; with brown and yellow woods , stubble fields , blackberry hedges and nutting groves - this October month this year in the capital of Sweden is most horrible . The Swedes tell me it is ...
... bright as the faces of its ruddy - cheeked farmers ; with brown and yellow woods , stubble fields , blackberry hedges and nutting groves - this October month this year in the capital of Sweden is most horrible . The Swedes tell me it is ...
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... bright day , begin to think about . Women , on the contrary , marry young ; that is to say , when they do marry , for unless they have money , or some other equally great attraction , they , like women elsewhere , often do not marry at ...
... bright day , begin to think about . Women , on the contrary , marry young ; that is to say , when they do marry , for unless they have money , or some other equally great attraction , they , like women elsewhere , often do not marry at ...
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... bright and warm , unlike a northern autumn day , and the aspect of vegetation was such as I never had seen in England or elsewhere . The most vivid summer green was mingled with the brightest , purest gold - not yellow , not brown ...
... bright and warm , unlike a northern autumn day , and the aspect of vegetation was such as I never had seen in England or elsewhere . The most vivid summer green was mingled with the brightest , purest gold - not yellow , not brown ...
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... bright , light clear nights of the north , I was roving through the rooms , or gazing from the windows , to the horror of my cold - dreading hosts . To - day , however , the 8th day of November , the weather is cold enough to herald the ...
... bright , light clear nights of the north , I was roving through the rooms , or gazing from the windows , to the horror of my cold - dreading hosts . To - day , however , the 8th day of November , the weather is cold enough to herald the ...
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... bright ; the snow of one night was as deep as that of a week in England would be . The last brick and timber of the old house had been lowered ; the view was open , and Gref- ven was right — I was content . The broad open place was deep ...
... bright ; the snow of one night was as deep as that of a week in England would be . The last brick and timber of the old house had been lowered ; the view was open , and Gref- ven was right — I was content . The broad open place was deep ...
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Page 301 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 336 - For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth; so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.