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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: CHAPTER III. HEKCULANEUM AND POMPEII THE CITY OF ANTIQUITY, AND ITS LIFE. Several days at Herculaneum and Pompeii.?Thousands and thousands of objects pass before one's eyes, all of which, on returning home, whirl through the brain. How abstract from this chaos any dominant impression, any connected view of the whole ? The first and most enduring is the image of the reddish- grey city, half ruined and deserted, a pile of stones on a hill of rocks, with rows of thick wall, and bluish flagging glittering in the dazzling white atmosphere; and surrounding this the sea, the mountains, and an infinite perspective. On the summit stand the temples, that of Justice, of Venus, of Augustus, of Mercury, the house of Eumachia, and other temples, still incomplete, and, farther on, also on an elevation, the temple of Neptune. They also raised their gods on high in the pure atmosphere, of itself a divinity. The forum and the curia alongside afford a noble spot for councils, and to offer sacrifices. In the distance you discern the grand lines of the vapoury mountains, the tranquil tops of the Italian pine; then to the east, within the blonde sunlit haze, fine tree-forms and diversities of culture. You turn, and but little effort of the imagination enables you to reconstruct these temples. Thesecolumns, these Corinthian capitals, this simple arrangement, those openings of blue between those marble shafts, what an impression such a spectacle contemplated from infancy left on the mind The city in those days was a veritable patrimony, and not, as now, a government collection of lodging-houses. Of what significance to me are the Rouen or Limoges of to-day ? I can lodge there amidst piles of other lodgings: life comes from Paris. Paris itself, what is it but another heap of lodgings, the...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217494687 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217494684 |
| Weight | 0.73 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 In |
| List Price | $19.66 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 222 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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