Life in Sweden; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1853 - Scandinavia |
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... presents a more distant , but less diversified and , so to speak , populous view . There is one tiny islet close at hand , with one solitary house upon it , but its elevated banks are covered with villas , and under the bridge its ...
... presents a more distant , but less diversified and , so to speak , populous view . There is one tiny islet close at hand , with one solitary house upon it , but its elevated banks are covered with villas , and under the bridge its ...
Page 61
... present . It is a tableau vivant to see them . " " But I have seen them often . " " Ack ! how droll the English are , " is said sotto voce to another . " They never care to see any- thing . No ; they travel everywhere , and see LIFE IN ...
... present . It is a tableau vivant to see them . " " But I have seen them often . " " Ack ! how droll the English are , " is said sotto voce to another . " They never care to see any- thing . No ; they travel everywhere , and see LIFE IN ...
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... present , but the little old Dowager - Queen , who is everywhere , went about with an explaining chamberlain and her constant eye - glass , half glancing at a picture , presenting the glass at it , and saying , " Tout - a - fait char ...
... present , but the little old Dowager - Queen , who is everywhere , went about with an explaining chamberlain and her constant eye - glass , half glancing at a picture , presenting the glass at it , and saying , " Tout - a - fait char ...
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... of - the scene was one that will be longer present to my memory than anything I saw or heard within doors . The ground was deep in snow - snow frozen so VOL . II . F soon that it is not tossed about or trodden down LIFE IN SWEDEN . 65.
... of - the scene was one that will be longer present to my memory than anything I saw or heard within doors . The ground was deep in snow - snow frozen so VOL . II . F soon that it is not tossed about or trodden down LIFE IN SWEDEN . 65.
Page 68
... present . " I am so sorry ; I should like to see a Swedish bride . " " That you can certainly do without any trouble . " " How ? Shall I go to the church ; that is all I wanted . " " To see the bride ? At church ! O , no , Madame ; our ...
... present . " I am so sorry ; I should like to see a Swedish bride . " " That you can certainly do without any trouble . " " How ? Shall I go to the church ; that is all I wanted . " " To see the bride ? At church ! O , no , Madame ; our ...
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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.