Life in Sweden; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1853 - Scandinavia |
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... tree of the Swedish nobility which my literary friend would persuade me has lost all its sap , and is decayed to its roots . There is an interruption ; and I am glad of it , for I am tired of titles . 24 CHAPTER II . AND what was the ...
... tree of the Swedish nobility which my literary friend would persuade me has lost all its sap , and is decayed to its roots . There is an interruption ; and I am glad of it , for I am tired of titles . 24 CHAPTER II . AND what was the ...
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... singularly beautiful . The broad leaves of the immense chestnut trees , that on each side bordered the long carriage drive , seemed wrought in gold ; there was no tincture of decay , no sere and yellow leaf . 28 LIFE IN SWEDEN .
... singularly beautiful . The broad leaves of the immense chestnut trees , that on each side bordered the long carriage drive , seemed wrought in gold ; there was no tincture of decay , no sere and yellow leaf . 28 LIFE IN SWEDEN .
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... trees ; and , through the mass of green and golden foliage , the dark firs rose changeless up , towering so very high above their own beloved rocks . It was unlike the brown and yellow woods of England , which in autumn bring such ...
... trees ; and , through the mass of green and golden foliage , the dark firs rose changeless up , towering so very high above their own beloved rocks . It was unlike the brown and yellow woods of England , which in autumn bring such ...
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... is a broad walk bor- dered by small elm trees without heads ; and at one of these walks is a sentry box , and a sentry to guard the statue . VOL . II . D Now this place I had been told would afford me LIFE IN SWEDEN . 33.
... is a broad walk bor- dered by small elm trees without heads ; and at one of these walks is a sentry box , and a sentry to guard the statue . VOL . II . D Now this place I had been told would afford me LIFE IN SWEDEN . 33.
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... trees . Grefven came to pay his evening visit , and in- formed me that the old building belonged to the Government , and had been let to a Professor , who used it as what is termed a pump room , for the sale of artificial mineral water ...
... trees . Grefven came to pay his evening visit , and in- formed me that the old building belonged to the Government , and had been let to a Professor , who used it as what is termed a pump room , for the sale of artificial mineral water ...
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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.