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… 1860, stood the grand entrance to Vauxhall Gardensthat paradise of enchantment, with its houris in the illuminated … I could not but look upon the place as a kind of Mahometan paradise;" nor will they forget how the gardens put Sir Roger … old guide-books almost always call Vauxhall an "earthly paradise;" and Addison, as we have seen above, speaks of it …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… business of the chaplain. If he be a martyr the less in Paradise he will pray God here on earth for the exaltation of …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… to acquaint him with his intentions. Farewell. From our Paradise: for such, in truth, may I call this place where I … in this delicious spot, I fancy myself with my Maker in Paradise. Again, farewell. Rovelona, in the Euganan Hills, …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… than these, and that they think themselves in Paradise, where they will tire out all the others, so as to …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… we are in port and enjoying the delights of the Earthly Paradise. Those who have experience know that things are not …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… He was very fond of inhabiting a chamber called the Paradise, and justly so, for it is decorated with very noble …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… benignity and mercy of our Lord, who would not deny me paradise, as without this hope I should fear death, and be in …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… the conclusion that there must be those who promise them paradise after death; nor is there the smallest doubt that if … kill the Earl and escape, had had authority to promise paradise on death, the Earl would most assuredly have been …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… for her age of 18 yearsand she does not look moreshe is a paradise. On the road, in advance of her, were some fifty of …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… venerable old men ( the greater part of whom are now in Paradise) lamenting the downfall of that Republic with the …