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... church and flapped barbaric defiance at civilization , was rusty and worm - eaten . Its crimson drapery fluttering , rent , upon an idle wind , would be inevitably shivered by the first rough blow of modern steel . And the great powers ...
... church and flapped barbaric defiance at civilization , was rusty and worm - eaten . Its crimson drapery fluttering , rent , upon an idle wind , would be inevitably shivered by the first rough blow of modern steel . And the great powers ...
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... churches , dating probably from the Crusades . They were massive and picturesque . Hanging plants waved over them funereally in the bright air , and the gnarled old olives clustered about them in dumb sadness . But although I paused ...
... churches , dating probably from the Crusades . They were massive and picturesque . Hanging plants waved over them funereally in the bright air , and the gnarled old olives clustered about them in dumb sadness . But although I paused ...
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... churches , and knew all the chances of their fate , -they whispered nothing in my ear : only as the morning breeze rustled in their foliage , I seemed to hear the wild music of six centuries ago peal- ing faintly through the valley ...
... churches , and knew all the chances of their fate , -they whispered nothing in my ear : only as the morning breeze rustled in their foliage , I seemed to hear the wild music of six centuries ago peal- ing faintly through the valley ...
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... Church aimed at gratify- ing this instinctive requirement in religious associations , of an atmosphere of beauty ... churches have the aspect of eternal sum- mer and twilight ; and thus flowers , the symbol of the perfection of external ...
... Church aimed at gratify- ing this instinctive requirement in religious associations , of an atmosphere of beauty ... churches have the aspect of eternal sum- mer and twilight ; and thus flowers , the symbol of the perfection of external ...
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... church is its chief feature , and as you stand in its cold vastness , you would be in Italy , except for the swarthy faces , whose mysterious eyes follow your move- ments with grave curiosity . It is nothing but a large , cold church ...
... church is its chief feature , and as you stand in its cold vastness , you would be in Italy , except for the swarthy faces , whose mysterious eyes follow your move- ments with grave curiosity . It is nothing but a large , cold church ...
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