Friday, May 23, 2008

Horace Vernet paintings

Horace Vernet paintings
Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky paintings
Il'ya Repin paintings
Igor V.Babailov paintings
Still once more, a little before the progress was ended, the duke was obliged to ride forward, and make remonstrance. He whispered:
"O dread sovereign! shake off these fatal humors; the eyes of the world are upon thee." Then he added with sharp annoyance, "Perdition catch that crazy pauper! "twas she that hath disturbed your HighnessThe gorgeous figure turned a lusterless eye upon the duke, and said in a dead voice:
"She was my mother!"
"My God!" groaned the Protector as he reined his horse backward to his post, "the omen was pregnant with prophecy. He is gone mad again!" majesty; and the whole pageant was framed with wreaths of roses, red and white."
This quaint and gaudy spectacle so wrought upon the rejoicing people, that their acclamations utterly smothered the small voice of the child whose business it was to explain the thing in eulogistic rhymes. But Tom Canty was not sorry; for this loyal uproar was sweeter music to him than any poetry, no matter what its quality might be. Whithersoever Tom turned his happy young face, the people recognized the exactness

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