A brilliant morning shines on the old city. Its antiquities and ruins are surpassingly beautiful, with the lusty ivy gleaming in the sun, and the rich trees waving in the balmy air. Changes of glorious light from moving boughs, songs of birds, scents... Once a Week - Page 128edited by - 1870Full view - About this book
| Charles Dickens - 1894 - 630 pages
...bed. A brilliant morning shines on the old city. Its antiquities and ruins are surpassingly beautiful, with the lusty ivy gleaming in the sun, and the rich...from gardens, woods, and fields, — or, rather, from one great garden of the whole cultivated island in its yielding time. — penetrate into the Cathedral,... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1894 - 662 pages
...bed. A brilliant morning shines on the old city. Its antiquities and ruins are surpassingly beautiful, with the lusty ivy gleaming in the sun, and the rich...from gardens, woods, and fields, — or, rather, from one great garden of the whole cultivated island in its yielding time, — penetrate into the Cathedral,... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1894 - 668 pages
...bed. A brilliant morning shines on the old city. Its antiquities and ruins are surpassingly beautiful, with the lusty ivy gleaming in the sun, and the rich...Changes of glorious light from moving boughs, songs of bir :-. scents from gardens, woods, and fields, — or, rather, from one great garden of the whole... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1894 - 658 pages
...had risen with the 8th of June, shining on the old city of Rochester. He sees in surpassing beauty, with the lusty ivy gleaming in the sun, and the rich trees waving in the balmy air, its antiquities, and its ruins; its Cathedral and Castle. But his fancy, then, is not with the stern... | |
| Canniff Haight - 1895 - 634 pages
..."A brilliant morning shines on the old city. Its antiquities and ruins are surpassingly beautiful, with the lusty ivy gleaming in the sun and the rich...gardens, woods and fields — or rather from the one garden of the whole cultivated island in its yielding time — penetrate into the Cathedral, subdue... | |
| George Gissing - 1898 - 334 pages
...the sunshine above the world's dark places, nourished the hope of something beyond this present. " Changes of glorious light from moving boughs, songs of birds, scents from gardens, woods, and fields . . . penetrate into the cathedral, subdue its earthy odour, and preach the Resurrection and the Life."... | |
| Canniff Haight - 1904 - 684 pages
..." A brilliant morning shines on the old city. Its antiquities and ruins are surpassingly beautiful, with the lusty ivy gleaming in the sun and the rich...gardens, woods and fields — or rather from the one garden of the whole cultivated island in its yielding time — penetrate into the Cathedral, subdue... | |
| William Teignmouth Shore - 1904 - 124 pages
...brilliant morning shines on the old city. Its antiquities and ruins are surpassingly beautiful, with a lusty ivy gleaming in the sun, and the rich trees...boughs, songs of birds, scents from gardens, woods, and fields—or, rather, from the one great garden of the whole cultivated island in its yielding time—... | |
| Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1907 - 418 pages
...may continue to paraphrase the famous passage from Edwin JJrood, were surpassingly beautiful with a lusty ivy gleaming in the sun, and the rich trees...of birds, scents from gardens, woods, and fields," not only penetrated into the cathedral, but into every nook, every cranny, and seemed to enter the... | |
| Sir Frank Thomas Marzials - 1908 - 600 pages
...: " Brilliant morning shines on the old city. Its antiquities and ruins are snrpassingly beautiful with the lusty ivy gleaming in the sun and the rich...gardens, woods and fields, or rather, from the one ;;reat garden of the whole cultivated island in its yielding time, penetrate into the cathedral, subdue... | |
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