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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one’s own.

Bayard Taylor

Really,’ thought I, ‘we call Baltimore the ‘Monumental City’ for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
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Baltimore Cities Two
We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
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Ocean Running Space
The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Streams Wells Wisdom
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows – the south and east oriels – are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
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Beautiful Flower Scotland
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Granted Kissing Stolen
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Love Old Shall You
The Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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Poet Process Years
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World
In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
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Afar Emotion Soil
As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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Ascent Olives
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Annoying Fool Wells
Life lives only in success.
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Life Live Success
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Develop Eccentricity Monomania
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Observation People
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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Childhood Desire Long

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one’s own.

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