ISBN: 9781458973641

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842. Excerpt: ... siderable distance, and found two old Venetian towers on its banks. After leaving the river we went over a tract of rugged, sterile ground, with occasionally a flowery, aromatic hollow, and almost always with fine views of Pentelicus and Parnes. On reaching the heights above Oropo the view was really magnificent, mountain, wood, plain, the Euripus, and the lofty headlands of Euboea over the sea. Indeed, both on the road from Athens to Marathon, and again from Marathon to Oropo, the scenery was more interesting than we had expected to find it. Oropo, the scene of the old Amphiaraian games, retains no vestiges of antiquity to interest and delay the traveller. We left it the next morning and proceeded to Egripo. The road lay along the shoees of the Euripus, the scenery of which very much resembles the salt-water lochs of Argyllshire. We passed under Mount Ktypa, crossed the narrow bridge from the continent, and entered Euboea, the modern Egripo. The town of Egripo is singularly oriental. The old walls and fort do not seem Turkish; but the mosques with their thin pillar-like tower, and the crescent still standing on them, the cypresses of the Turkish cemetery, the ruins of old Turkish palaces, and one tall palm-tree which hangs its fanlike leaves over the wall, give the place a completely eastern character. The water under the bridge, though a strong current, does not run so vehemently F f 2 as we had expected. We were almost vexed to find it so like other currents: yet the green hills of Euboea, and the exquisite sky of Greece, and the memory-peopled locality, made our visit to Egripo very pleasant. When we surmounted the lower part of Mount Ktypa, a hill abundantly peopled with land-tortoises, harmless colonists, we gained our first view of the strange, gre... Frederick William Faber, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Sights And Thoughts In Foreign Churches And Among Foreign Peoples (volume 1) Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 1; Original Published by: Printed for J. G. F. & Rivington in 1842 in 676 pages; Subjects: Cathedrals; Europe; France; Greece; Italy; Church history; Architecture / Religious Buildings; History / Ancient / Greece; History / Europe / France; History / Europe / Italy; History / Europe / Greece; Religion / Christianity / Catholic; Religion / Christianity / History; Religion / Christian Church / History;<

ISBN: 9781458973641

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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 unfrequently Books, Architecture~~General, Sights-and-Thoughts-in-Foreign-Churches-and-Among-Foreign-Peoples~~Frederick-William-Faber, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781458973641

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842. Excerpt: ... siderable distance, and found two old Venetian towers on its banks. After leaving the river we went over a tract of rugged, sterile ground, with occasionally a flowery, aromatic hollow, and almost always with fine views of Pentelicus and Parnes. On reaching the heights above Oropo the view was really magnificent, mountain, wood, plain, the Euripus, and the lofty headlands of Euboea over the sea. Indeed, both on the road from Athens to Marathon, and again from Marathon to Oropo, the scenery was more interesting than we had expected to find it. Oropo, the scene of the old Amphiaraian games, retains no vestiges of antiquity to interest and delay the traveller. We left it the next morning and proceeded to Egripo. The road lay along the shoees of the Euripus, the scenery of which very much resembles the salt-water lochs of Argyllshire. We passed under Mount Ktypa, crossed the narrow bridge from the continent, and entered Euboea, the modern Egripo. The town of Egripo is singularly oriental. The old walls and fort do not seem Turkish; but the mosques with their thin pillar-like tower, and the crescent still standing on them, the cypresses of the Turkish cemetery, the ruins of old Turkish palaces, and one tall palm-tree which hangs its fanlike leaves over the wall, give the place a completely eastern character. The water under the bridge, though a strong current, does not run so vehemently F f 2 as we had expected. We were almost vexed to find it so like other currents: yet the green hills of Euboea, and the exquisite sky of Greece, and the memory-peopled locality, made our visit to Egripo very pleasant. When we surmounted the lower part of Mount Ktypa, a hill abundantly peopled with land-tortoises, harmless colonists, we gained our first view of the strange, gre... Frederick William Faber, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Sights And Thoughts In Foreign Churches And Among Foreign Peoples (volume 1) Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1458973646

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