 In the foreground was a group of silent peasant girls leaning over the parapet of a little bridge, and looking, now up at the sky, now down into the water; in the distance, a deep bell; the shade of approaching night on everything.  The Pilgrim of Scandinavia - Page 45by Charles John Spencer George Canning baron Garvagh - 1875 - 219 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1846 - 608 pages
...the foreground was a group of silent peasant girls leaning over the parapet of a little bridge, and looking, now up at the sky, now down into the water...distance, a deep bell ; the shadow of approaching night on every thing. If I had been murdered there, in some former life, I could not have seemed to remember... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...the foreground was a group of silent peasant girls leaning over the parapet of a little bridge, and looking, now up at the sky, now down into the water...distance, a deep bell ; the shadow of approaching night on every thing. If I had been murdered there, in some former life, I could not have seemed to remember... | |
 | James Bower Harrison - 1852 - 258 pages
...mentions, in his " Pictures from Italy," his first sight of Ferrara in the following terms : — " On the foreground was a group of silent peasant girls...night on everything. If I had been murdered there on some former life I could not have seemed to remember the place more thoroughly, or with more emphatic... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 302 pages
...this instance, on his first sight of Perrara : On the fore-ground was a group of silent peasant-girls leaning over the parapet of a little bridge, looking...night on everything. If I had been murdered there on some former life I could not have seemed to remember the place more thoroughly, or with more emphatic... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 340 pages
...this instance, on his first sight of Ferrara : On the fore-ground was a group of silent peasant-girls leaning over the parapet of a little bridge, looking...the shadow of approaching night on everything. If I hud been murdered there on some former life I could not have seemed to remember the place more thoroughly,... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1868 - 508 pages
...extremely imaginative and tragedyloving writer, in his Pictures from Italy, mentions this instance on his first sight of Ferrara : " On the foreground...distance a deep bell ; the shadow of approaching night on every thing. If I had been murdered there on some former life I could not have seemed to remember the... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 596 pages
...the foreground was a group of silent peasant girls leaning over the parapet of a little bridge, and looking, now up at the sky, now down into the water; in the distance, a deep bell; the shade of approaching night on everything. If I had been murdered there, in some former life, I could... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 662 pages
...the foreground was a group of silent peasant girls leaning over the parapet of a little bridge , and looking, now up at the sky, now down into the water , in the distance, a deep bell ; the shade of approaching night on everything. If I had been murdered there, in some former life, I could... | |
 | 1870 - 586 pages
...occurred on his first sight of Ferrara : — On the fore-ground was a group of silent peasant-girls leaning over the parapet of a little bridge, looking...night on everything. If I had been murdered there on some former life I could not have seemed to remember the place more thoroughly, or with more emphatic... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 1018 pages
...the fore-ground was a group of silent peasant-girls leaning over the parapet of a little bridge, and looking now up at the sky, now down into the water...distance a deep bell ; the shadow of approaching night over every thing. If I had been murdered there, in some former lift, I could not have seemed to have... | |
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