Pictures from Italy and American Notes for General CirculationJ.B.Lippincott & Company, 1885 |
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Albaro beautiful boat Brave Courier bright cabin carriage Cathedral cell cheerful church Cloisterham coach colours corner Crisparkle crowd dark dear deck dinner door dress Durdles Edwin Drood eyes face fancy fire gallery Genoa Genoese gentleman Grewgious half hand head horses hour Jasper kind lady Laura Bridgman legs light live look looking-glass Lowell Offering Mantua manual alphabet ment miles mind Minor Canon Miss Twinkleton morning Mount Vesuvius Naples never Neville night o'clock painted palaces party passed passengers pict Pictures from Italy Pisa pleasant pretty prison river road Rome roof Rosa round ruin Sapsea seemed seen shining side sight steamboat stone stopped strange streets thing thought tion tower town travelling turned uncon walk walls whole wind young
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