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Page 131
... sort of herb , decorative perhaps in a garland or bouquet , and useful in medicine . Of course , flowers have always been in some sort loved , since Persephone's maidens lost their mistress through " zeal for picking , " but only of ...
... sort of herb , decorative perhaps in a garland or bouquet , and useful in medicine . Of course , flowers have always been in some sort loved , since Persephone's maidens lost their mistress through " zeal for picking , " but only of ...
Page 196
... sort of butterfly perched on what sort of flower . When he wrote of the bird that could ' beget the golden time again , ' he told us it was the cuckoo , but we do not know whether peacock or tortoiseshell was so fondly watched or ...
... sort of butterfly perched on what sort of flower . When he wrote of the bird that could ' beget the golden time again , ' he told us it was the cuckoo , but we do not know whether peacock or tortoiseshell was so fondly watched or ...
Page 214
... sort of baths which the Peruvians , thanks to their climate , built in the gardens that were their bathrooms , as with Susanna in Syria . Nor indeed has the sort of voluptuous luxury , which Prescott describes in his Conquest of Peru ...
... sort of baths which the Peruvians , thanks to their climate , built in the gardens that were their bathrooms , as with Susanna in Syria . Nor indeed has the sort of voluptuous luxury , which Prescott describes in his Conquest of Peru ...
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