| Автор: Meynell Alice
Название: Essays (Classic Reprint)
ISBN: 0483553778 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780483553774
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Описание: Excerpt from Essays Yet, except that it is overtaken and put to death In these acc ssible places, the Wild summer growth of Rome has a prevailing success and vi tory. It breaks all bounds, flies to the summits, lodges in the sun, swings in the Wind, takes Wing to find the remotest ledges, and blooms aloft. It makes light of the sixteenth century, of the seventeenth, and of the eighteenth. AS the historic ages grow cold it banters them alike. The flagrant flourishing statue, the haughty fagade, the interrupted pediment (and Rome is chiefly the city of the interrupted pediment) are the opportunities of this vagrant garden in the air. One certain church, that is full of attitude, can hardly be aware that a crimson snap dragon of great stature and many stalks and blossoms is standing on its furthest summit tiptoe against its sky. The cornice of another Church in the fair middle of Rome lifts out of the shadows of the Streets a row of acci dental marigolds. Impartial to the antique, the mediaeval, the Renaissance early and late, the newer modern, this wild summer finds its account in travertine and tufa, reticulated work, brick, Stucco, and stone. A bird of the air carries the matter, 'or the last sea-wind, sombre and soft, or the latest tramontana, gold and blue, has lodged in a little fertile dust the Wild grass, Wild wheat, Wild oats About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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