Excerpt from Brittany and La Vendee: Tales and Sketches; With a Notice of the Life and Literary Character of ???mile Souvestre Do you see that figure of a nymph leaning on the symbolic urn P Her fair hair is wreathed with silver willow; her soft blue eye wanders into the depths of heaven; her hands are full of fruits, and stretched towards a group of children; and her beautiful form lies gracefully reclining along the flowery grass. It is the Loire, such as art has been able to express her in marble - such as your ...
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Excerpt from Brittany and La Vendee: Tales and Sketches; With a Notice of the Life and Literary Character of ???mile Souvestre Do you see that figure of a nymph leaning on the symbolic urn P Her fair hair is wreathed with silver willow; her soft blue eye wanders into the depths of heaven; her hands are full of fruits, and stretched towards a group of children; and her beautiful form lies gracefully reclining along the flowery grass. It is the Loire, such as art has been able to express her in marble - such as your own imagination, when you had once seen, would personify, her. Force, impetuosity, and grandeur, may rule elsewhere; here is the reign of beauty and fertility. In a course of more than a hundred and eighty leagues, the corn-coloured river, as an old chronicler has it, flows through meadows, vineyards, woods, and great cities, without once finding a barren or a desert spot. From its source to the sea, on either side, the eye sees only\flocks feeding, chimneys smoking, and ploughmen who seem sing ing at their ploughs. The stream glides noiselessly over its sandy bed - among islets nodding their plumes of osier, willow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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