The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 3; Volume 9M. Bancroft, J. Wiley, and G. and C. and H. Carvill, 1837 - American literature |
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... of Plato , Transitoriness , The Street , The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky , There is always Hope , The Bride of Genoa , The Fairy Mythology , . The Totem ,. Vanderlyn , Von Jung , the Mystific , V. 105 , 272 , 362 , 489 and 613 562 vi INDEX .
... of Plato , Transitoriness , The Street , The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky , There is always Hope , The Bride of Genoa , The Fairy Mythology , . The Totem ,. Vanderlyn , Von Jung , the Mystific , V. 105 , 272 , 362 , 489 and 613 562 vi INDEX .
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... cave of queen Dido , was a greater hero than the mightiest Julius wading in blood at Pharsalia . For the same reason , if the truth must be told , we even held that the dark Hades , the inamabile reg- num as Tisiphone so emphatically ...
... cave of queen Dido , was a greater hero than the mightiest Julius wading in blood at Pharsalia . For the same reason , if the truth must be told , we even held that the dark Hades , the inamabile reg- num as Tisiphone so emphatically ...
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... Cave , and should lead the way up to its gaping door , as rows of sphinxes conduct the traveller to the front of an Egyptian temple . The famous Eldon Hole of Derbyshire ( who has not heard of ... Cave , 418 THE MAMMOTH CAVE OF KENTUCKY .
... Cave , and should lead the way up to its gaping door , as rows of sphinxes conduct the traveller to the front of an Egyptian temple . The famous Eldon Hole of Derbyshire ( who has not heard of ... Cave , 418 THE MAMMOTH CAVE OF KENTUCKY .
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... caves of the West . No one need ever be astounded at the grandeur of that renowned cave of Tipperary , discovered in 1833 , with its chambers " wider than angels ken , " - one " nearly a mile in circumference , " another " of about ...
... caves of the West . No one need ever be astounded at the grandeur of that renowned cave of Tipperary , discovered in 1833 , with its chambers " wider than angels ken , " - one " nearly a mile in circumference , " another " of about ...
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... cave - world are not yet exhausted . Let us accompany Humboldt , the profoundest of chirographers , the most veracious of travellers , to the cave of the Guacharo , among the mountains of Cumana . It opens on the face of a precipice , a ...
... cave - world are not yet exhausted . Let us accompany Humboldt , the profoundest of chirographers , the most veracious of travellers , to the cave of the Guacharo , among the mountains of Cumana . It opens on the face of a precipice , a ...
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