A cruise in Greek waters with a hunting excursion in TunisBradbury, Evans, and Company, 1870 - 286 pages |
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A Cruise in Greek Waters: With a Hunting Excursion in Tunis Frederick Trench Townshend No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 289 - All the civilized world— English, Continental, and American — takes an interest in the Tower of London. The Tower is the stage upon which has been enacted some of the grandest dramas and saddest tragedies in our national annals. If, in imagination, we take our stand on tliose time-worn walls, and let century after century fiit past us, we shall see in duo succession the majority of the most famous men and lovely women of England in the olden time.
Page 289 - ... women of England in the olden time. We shall see them jesting, jousting, love-making, plotting, and then anon, perhaps, commending their souls to God in the presence of a hideous masked figure, bearing an axe in his hands.
Page 289 - is one of the most affecting in the book. A mature man can scarcely read it without feeling the tears ready to trickle from his eyes. No part of the first volume yields in interest to the chapters which are devoted to the story of Sir Walter Raleigh.