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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LE FEU-FOLLE1 CHAPTER I. Filled with the face of heaven, which from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till ? 'tis gone ? and all is grey. Childe Harold The charms of the Tyrrhenian Sea have been sung since the days of Homer. That the Mediterranean, generally. and its beautiful boundaries of Alps and Apennines, with its deeply indented and irregular shores, forms the most delightful region of the known earth, in all that relates to climate, productions, and physical formation, will be readily enough conceded by the traveller. The countries that border on this midland water, with their promontories buttressing mimic ocean?their mountain-sides teeming with the pictu rcsque of human life ? their heights crowned with watch towers?their rocky shelves consecrated by hermitages, and their unrivalled sheet dotted with sails, rigged, as it might be, expressly to produce effect in a picture, form a sort of world apart, that is replete with delights to all who have the happy fortune to feel charms, which not only fascinate the beholder, but which linger in the memories of the absent like visions of a glorious past. Our present business is with this fragment of a creation that is so eminently beautiful, even in its worst aspects, but which is so often marred by the passions of man, in its best, While all admit how much nature has done for the Mediterranean, none will deny that, until quite recently, it has been the scene of more ruthless violence, and of deeper personal wrongs, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217914246 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217914241 |
| Weight | 1.08 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.74 In |
| List Price | $24.58 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 332 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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