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In the hour when the swallow sings, greeting the dawn, and her song is mournful, as if she remembered some former grief,. And our mind, freed from thoughts and having cast off its perishable coverings, is at times, as it were, prophetically clear-sighted, I dreamed that above me a
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The Resurrection of Christ from the Sherborne Missal, 1399–1407. Christ leaves the tomb while the guards set over it sleep
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"I," said he to him, "am Hermes, the immortal messenger of the gods; Pallas Athena, your protectress in heaven, has sent me. The king wishes to destroy you, but you shall not perish if you remember my words." And he told him what it was useful
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The plot was to have been carried out while the King was away from London, but he returned from the races considerably earlier than planned and so saved himself. The conspirators were executed, as were many influential Whigs who had no direct part in the attempt on the King'
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Man Seated. Igor Shelkovsky
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Beware! Take care: these two, one in a white greatcoat, the other in a brown one, may well be Russian generals spying on our barriers French caricature of the Second Empire era, 1854. Jean Geoffroy
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Meekness, one of the eight ideal qualities, by the seventeenth-century French artist Eustache Le Sueur. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago
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The Meeting of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne. Scenes from the Life of Joachim: the Meeting at the Golden Gate, 1304–1306. Giotto di Bondone. The Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, built on the site of an ancient Roman arena, houses the first cycle of frescoes indisputably attributed to Giotto. In
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