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... pictures even to the prodigious hinges of the shutters , all shelving up the steep hill side - Leblond was amused , I say , when I called this poor quarter of the city a ' splendid slum . ' When we paused at last at Rousseau's low ...
... pictures even to the prodigious hinges of the shutters , all shelving up the steep hill side - Leblond was amused , I say , when I called this poor quarter of the city a ' splendid slum . ' When we paused at last at Rousseau's low ...
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... picture , and I wish some English artist- say Mr. Frith — would paint the fungus - seller for the next Royal Academy . She was hooded in the charming white cap , with a red kerchief and short blue skirt ; and slung upon both arms were ...
... picture , and I wish some English artist- say Mr. Frith — would paint the fungus - seller for the next Royal Academy . She was hooded in the charming white cap , with a red kerchief and short blue skirt ; and slung upon both arms were ...
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... picture . It is surrounded by groves of trees , to begin with . By these groves are two lines of white- hooded country carts , the horses in the shafts , and before each animal a mound of fresh - cut clover . They are ranged as ...
... picture . It is surrounded by groves of trees , to begin with . By these groves are two lines of white- hooded country carts , the horses in the shafts , and before each animal a mound of fresh - cut clover . They are ranged as ...
Page 38
... pictures , and happy sur- prises of Flemish and Spanish tricks of light and shade and colour , than the stalls under the trees , massed with rough branches , ponderous nosegays ( a yard and a half in circumference , I measured ) , and ...
... pictures , and happy sur- prises of Flemish and Spanish tricks of light and shade and colour , than the stalls under the trees , massed with rough branches , ponderous nosegays ( a yard and a half in circumference , I measured ) , and ...
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... picture . The importance of the opening of the day well is not considered in my country . I am not sure that it is in Switzerland , or Germany , or France , or Belgium ; but then in these countries the open- ing is good , as a rule ...
... picture . The importance of the opening of the day well is not considered in my country . I am not sure that it is in Switzerland , or Germany , or France , or Belgium ; but then in these countries the open- ing is good , as a rule ...
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