Half Hours Of Travel At Home And Abroad

Author : Charles Morris
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ISBN 13 : 9781332814305
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Half-Hours of Travel at Home and Abroad written by Charles Morris and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Half-Hours of Travel at Home and Abroad: Europe Three times Elizabeth was his guest. Her last visit was in July, 1575, and lasted seventeen days. Of the festivi ties and princely entertainments he prepared for her on this occasion Sir Walter Scott has written with all that natural enthusiasm and predilection with which, perhaps, above all other English novelists, he dilated upon such a subject. His graphic descriptions of these scenes are so familiar to the million that I will not venture to go behind his brilliant fictions in search of actual historical facts of duller interest. The day of such favorites has gone by, like the beauty and glory of this once gorgeous fabric. The sun of Christian morality and civilization has risen to a purer ood of light, and such broad-faced gallant ries would now be looked out of countenance in high places. The facing Of the massive and lofty Caesar's Tower must be nearly three centuries old, and it is wonderfully perfect. The perpendicular lines from base to battlement are as straight as if the walls were run in a mould; the eye can not detect a de ection of a hair's breadth, nor has time been able to eat into the smooth and even surface. I noticed, however, that the brave old ivy green, which braids such bandages for the wounds made by time and human violence in abbeys and castles, had wound around the front of this huge tower such a thick spread that it had deadened the skin of the wall and was eating into the solid body of it like a caustic blister. There were men at work on tall ladders, removing this thick green bandage and letting the sun in upon the stone, which had not seen its light for years. 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."