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... In Vallombrosa , where the Etrurian shades High overarched embower . " But of the many who know by heart these magical lines , how few there are to whom Vallom- A brosa is more than a sounding name - suggest- ing VALLOMBROSA. ...
... In Vallombrosa , where the Etrurian shades High overarched embower . " But of the many who know by heart these magical lines , how few there are to whom Vallom- A brosa is more than a sounding name - suggest- ing VALLOMBROSA. ...
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... then worth communing with . It has many a wild thing to say that it is well for us to hear better than gossip of the city ; and where can one hear it better than here in the heart of Vallom- brosa STORMS IN THE APENNINES. ...
... then worth communing with . It has many a wild thing to say that it is well for us to hear better than gossip of the city ; and where can one hear it better than here in the heart of Vallom- brosa STORMS IN THE APENNINES. ...
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William Wetmore Story. it better than here in the heart of Vallom- brosa ? " When the Apennine walks abroad with the storm . " Then comes the winter . I shall be gone then ; but the poor peasants will stay , and hear what that has to say ...
William Wetmore Story. it better than here in the heart of Vallom- brosa ? " When the Apennine walks abroad with the storm . " Then comes the winter . I shall be gone then ; but the poor peasants will stay , and hear what that has to say ...
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... but if this be so , he would have been only sixteen years of age in 1008 , when they say that he went to Vallom- brosa . This , according to their own dates , must C be a mistake , since they affirm that he assumed CHRONOLOGY. ...
... but if this be so , he would have been only sixteen years of age in 1008 , when they say that he went to Vallom- brosa . This , according to their own dates , must C be a mistake , since they affirm that he assumed CHRONOLOGY. ...
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... Vallom- brosa , the Abbot San Giovanni applied the revenues of this property , which had now be- come very large , to the erection and establish- ment of a number of other monasteries under similar regulations , and of restoring still ...
... Vallom- brosa , the Abbot San Giovanni applied the revenues of this property , which had now be- come very large , to the erection and establish- ment of a number of other monasteries under similar regulations , and of restoring still ...
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