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Roman Holidays and Others

by Howells W. D. Howells , W. D. Howells , 1stworld Library
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781421845784
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
  • Publisher Imprint: 1st World Library - Literary Society
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  • Pages: 296
  • Original Price: GBP 7.75
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 377 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

No drop-curtain, at any theatre I have seen, was ever so richly imagined, with misty tops and shadowy clefts and frowning cliffs and gloomy valleys and long, plunging cataracts, as the actual landscape of Madeira, when we drew nearer and nearer to it, at the close of a tearful afternoon of mid-January. The scenery of drop-curtains is often very holdly beautiful, but here Nature, if she had taken a hint from art, had certainly bettered her instruction. During the waits between acts at the theatre, while studying the magnificent painting beyond the trouble of the orchestra, I have been most impressed by the splendid variety which the artist had got into his picture, where the spacious frame lent itself to his passion for saying everything; but I remembered his thronging fancies as meagre and scanty in the presence of the stupendous reality before me. I have, for instance, not even mentioned the sea, which swept smoother and smoother in toward the feet of those precipices and grew more and more trans-lucently purple and yellow and green, while half a score of cascades shot straight down their fronts in shafts of snowy foam, and over their pachydermatous shoulders streamed and hung long reaches of gray vines or mosses.

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