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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: BEAUTY OP AUTUMN. 13 and covered at high water by the tide. Here, frequently, as I retreated before the rising waves, quivering and glittering in the sun, I used to imagine myself in Egypt. Afterwards, in the solitudes of the Libyan desert, my thoughts often wandered back to that sandy shore which in miniature greatly resembled the wastes of Africa, and imparted to me in youth a tolerably correct idea of them. Everybody has his favourite season of the year, and autumn is mine. Nature herself seems then to grow sentimental, and to breathe an unimaginable sweetness through the air, slightly akin to melancholy, and begetting infinite musings. The year, with a strong consciousness of the joys and sorrows it has gone through, seems about to doff its vesture and lie down in dumb forgetfulness, with all that have come and gone since the flood; your feelings also mould themselves into harmony with things external, and you love then more than ever to be reminded that you stand on the margin of a boundless ocean, picking up whatever you can of enjoyment, bodily or mental, till one of its great waves, which you have had all along in your eye, comes and swallows you up. Meantime you endeavour, as I have said, to get some pleasant tastes of life, to hive up in your mind agreeable reminiscences, that, should dark14 THE GOLDEN COFFIN. and cheerless days come on, you may be able to say? The joys I have possess'd in spite of fate are mine: Not heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. If this were an autobiography, and I were compelled to be minute, I should certainly have a great deal to communicate before I could get fairly on shore in Egypt. How, for example, I journeyed to London, how I married and became the father of so...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217226752 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217226752 |
| Weight | 0.67 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 202 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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