 | Henry Neville Maugham - 1903 - 484 pages
...strike upon the stranger the next moment, like a softened sorrow ; and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight, not...its porches ; young trees of yesterday, springing up on its ragged parapets, and bearing fruit : chance produce of the seeds dropped there by the birds... | |
 | Andrew John Herbertson - 1903 - 344 pages
...upon the stranger the next moment with a softened NAPLES 197 sorrow, and never in his life perhaps will he be so moved and overcome by any sight not...in its porches ; young trees of yesterday springing up on its rugged parapets, and bearing fruit — chance produce of the seeds dropped there by the birds... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1906 - 450 pages
...strike upon the stranger the next moment, like a softened sorrow ; and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight, not...its porches ; young trees of yesterday, springing up on its ragged parapets, and bearing fruit : chance produce of the seeds dropped there by the birds... | |
 | Ella Marie Powers, Thomas Minard Balliet - 1906 - 392 pages
...strike upon the stranger, the next moment, like a softened sorrow ; and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight not...in its porches ; young trees of yesterday springing up on its ragged parapets, and bearing fruit, chance produce of the seeds dropped there by the birds... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1907 - 306 pages
...strike upon the stranger, the next moment, like a softened sorrow, and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight, not...connected with his own affections and afflictions." Dickens, evidently gazing at this wonderful edifice, the relic of a long-vanished time of triumph,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 570 pages
...strike upon the stranger the next moment, like a softened sorrow ; and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight, not...its porches ; young trees of yesterday, springing up on its ragged parapets, and bearing fruit: chance produce of the seeds dropped there by the birds... | |
 | Celia Richmond - 1913 - 296 pages
...desolation strike upon the stranger the next moment like a softened sorrow, and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight not...in its porches, young trees of yesterday springing up on its ragged parapets and bearing fruit (chance produce of the seeds dropped there by the birds... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1913 - 800 pages
...softened Borrow ; and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any eight uot immediately connected with his own affections and...overgrown with green, its corridors open to the day ; the Ion«: grass growing in its porches ; young trees of yesterday springing up on its rugged parapets,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1926 - 1006 pages
...strike upon the stranger the next moment, like a softened sorrow ; and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight, not...connected with his own affections and afflictions. build their nests within its chinks and crannies ; to see its Pit of Fight filled up with earth, and... | |
 | 1901 - 866 pages
...wild beasts. The Colosseum and the scenes enacted in it which it recalls caused Dickens to exclaim: "To see it crumbling there, an inch a year; its walls...corridors open to the day; the long grass growing on its porches ; young trees sprouting up on its ragged parapets and bearing fruit, chance produce... | |
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Its solitude, its awful beauty, and its utter desolation, strike upon the stranger, the next moment, like a softened sorrow; and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight, not immediately connected with his own affections... 
