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" Hopes, long cherished, were now to be realised, or were to end in disappointment. Visions of palaces under-ground, of gigantic monsters, of sculptured figures, and endless inscriptions, floated before me. After forming plan after plan for removing the... "
Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean ... - Page 25
by Austen Henry Layard - 1854
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Great Adventures in Archaeology

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...
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The North American Review, Volume 69

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...
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The North American Review, Volume 69

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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