| Robert Silverberg - Social Science - 1997 - 420 pages
...have been forgotten, had my brain been less excited. Hopes, long cherished, were now to be realized, or were to end in disappointment. Visions of palaces...The ruins were no longer clothed with verdure and many-colored flowers; no signs of habitation, not even the black tent of the Arab, were seen upon the... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1849 - 564 pages
...have been forgotten, had my brain been less excited. Hopes, long cherished, were now to be realized, or were to end in disappointment. Visions of palaces...mountain on the morning sky. But how changed was the 120 Layard's Nineveh and its Remains. [July, scene since my former visit ! The ruins were no longer... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1849 - 574 pages
...no outlet. Then again, all was reburied, and I was standing on the grass-covered mound. Exhausted, 1 was at length sinking into sleep, when hearing the...The ruins were no longer clothed with verdure and many-colored flowers ; no signs of habitation, not even the black tent of the Arab, was seen upon the... | |
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