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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: look at the light through that surprising host of steeples, towers and belfries; pour forth amidst the immense city, break against the points of its islands, compress within the arches of the bridges the current of the Seine, with its large patches of green and yellow, more changeable than a serpent's 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: look at the light through that surprising host of steeples, towers and belfries; pour forth amidst the immense city, break against the points of its islands, compress within the arches of the bridges the current of the Seine, with its large patches of green and yellow, more changeable than a serpent's skin; define clearly the Gothic profile of this old Paris upon an horizon of azure; make its contour float in a wintry fog which clings to its innumerable chimneys; drown it in deep night, and observe the extraordinary play of darkness and light in this sombre labyrinth of buildings; throw into it a ray of moonlight, which shall show its faint outline and cause the huge heads of the towers to stand forth from amid the mist; or revert to that dark picture, touch up with shade the thousand acute angles of the spires and gables, and make them stand out more jagged than a shark's jaw, upon the copper-colored sky of evening. Now compare the two." We enjoyed the panorama of Paris from the dome of the Pantheon for a long time, each mass of building forming the centre of a groupe of historical recollections. When we had descended, we repaired to the tomb of St. Genevieve in St. Etienne; and it must be confessed, that the memory of the pious dark ages was very soothing after the glare of enlightened sin which hangs about the capitals of the Pantheon. We spent the greater part of a day in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise. In summer it must be abeautiful lounge, and a lounge is exactly what most make of it. It may very well be questioned whether the effect of interesting cemeteries is not bad. There is a kind of sentimental way of thinking of death, which is anything but solemn; and there is also a voluptuous way of thinking of it, which is equally uncatholic, and it is not Books, Literary Collections~~General, Sights-And-Thoughts-In-Foreign-Churches-And-Among-Foreign-Peoples~~Frederick-William-Faber, 999999999, Sights And Thoughts In Foreign Churches And Among Foreign Peoples (1842), Frederick William Faber, 1104589370, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

ISBN: 9781104589370

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: KESSINGER PUB CO, 654 Seiten, L=229mm, B=152mm, H=40mm, Gew.=1120gr, [GR: 11110 - HC/Belletristik/Romane/Erzählungen], [SW: - Literature - Classics / Criticism], Gebunden<

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