This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... LEGENDS OF THE MOSEL fAKING its rise in the storied Vosges, flowing through the beautiful plains and valleys of Lorraine, and cutting its latercourse through the high region that borders the Rhine from. Bingen to the Ahr; watering in its. course a land which received the very earliest influx of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... LEGENDS OF THE MOSEL fAKING its rise in the storied Vosges, flowing through the beautiful plains and valleys of Lorraine, and cutting its latercourse through the high region that borders the Rhine from. Bingen to the Ahr; watering in its. course a land which received the very earliest influx of the Eastern races, whereRome held for four centuries its highest Cisalpine court, and where Christianity first planted its foot in Northern Europe; flowing through the ancient land of the Treviri, the Leuci, and the Remi; washing slopes whose fertile vineyards led to an early civilized prosperity, and bathing the feet of crags where the robberknights and the warlike abbots of the Middle Ages built their defensive works, and led their riotous and tumultuous lives; enriched since the earliest time, from its very source to its junction with the Rhine, with' every interest that historic association can give, and every charm that superstition and poetry can lend;--with such a location and such a history it is quite a matter of course that the Mosel, from its cradle in the Alsatian hills to its bridal bed beneath the heights of Ehrenbreitstein, is decked at every step of its way with story and fancy and endless legend. Legendary lore is marked with elements of such extreme simplicity, and it implies to such a degree a faith in the holy traditions of the church, that it rarely rises to the level of philosophic wisdom. Neither does it always command a position of the highest regard in modern literature. But it is to be remembered that a due appreciation of nearly all that the Mosel has to offer implies something else than an intellectual modern criticism. It is a land which the modern spirit has not yet invaded, --a land to which we go back, with simple..
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