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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...names have been cut. There is no monument here, no memorial on which the traveller can have his name carved, no rocky wall on whose surface he can get it painted; so visitors have the turf cut away for that purpose. The naked earth peers through in the form of great letters and names; these form a network over the whole hill. Here is an immortality, which lasts till the fresh turf grows "Up on the hill stood a man, a poet. He emptied the mead horn with the broad silver rim, and murmured a name. He begged the winds not to betray him, but I heard the name. I knew it. A counts coronet sparkles above it, and therefore he did not speak it out. I smiled, for I knew that a poets crown adorned his own name. The nobility of Eleanora dEste is attached to the name of Tasso. And I also know where the Eose of Beauty blooms " Thus spake the Moon, and a cloud.came between us. May no cloud separate the poet from the rose SEVENTH EVENING. "AiOBTG the margin of the shore stretches a forest of firs and beeches, tand fresh and fragrant is this wood; hundreds of nightingales visit it every spring. Close beside it is the sea, the ever-changing sea, and between the two is placed the broad high road. One carriage after another rolls over it; but I did not follow them, for my eye loves best to rest upon one point. A Huns Grave t lies there, and the sloe and blackthorn grow luxuriantly among the stones. Here is true poetry in nature. "And how do you think men appreciate this poetry? I will tell you wtat I heard there last evening and during the night. "First, two rich landed proprietors came driving by. Those are glorious trees said the first. Certainly; there are ten loads of firewood in each, observed the other: it will be a...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153423649 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153423642 |
| Weight | 2.25 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.55 In |
| List Price | $40.92 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 704 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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