The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . rs of his left hand in concert withthe strings. One of them had on a pair ofsandals of goat-skin, laced with thongs, andnot uncommon. After gratifying their curiosity,they returned back as they came, with theirmusician in front. Such are the present citizensof Ephesus, and such is the condition to whichthat renowned city has been gradually was a ruinous place when the Emperor Jus-tinian filled Constantinople with its statues,and raised the church of St. Sophia on itscolumns. Since then it has been almost quite exha


The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . rs of his left hand in concert withthe strings. One of them had on a pair ofsandals of goat-skin, laced with thongs, andnot uncommon. After gratifying their curiosity,they returned back as they came, with theirmusician in front. Such are the present citizensof Ephesus, and such is the condition to whichthat renowned city has been gradually was a ruinous place when the Emperor Jus-tinian filled Constantinople with its statues,and raised the church of St. Sophia on itscolumns. Since then it has been almost quite exhausted. A herd of goats was driven to itfor shelter from the sun at noon; and a noisyflight of crows from its marble quarries seemedto insult its silence. We heard the partridgecall in the area of the theatre and of theStadium. The glorious pomp of its heathenworship is no longer remembered; and Christi-anity, which was here nursed by apostles, andfostered by general councils, until it increasedto fulness of stature, barely lingers on in anexistence hardly [^Restoration of the SecoM Temple of Diaiiaj at Epheaus,]


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