Excerpt from Julien, or a Poet's Life: Lyric Poem in a Prologue, Four Acts and Eight Tableaux Wild landscape in Brittany, near the seashore. Tempest. Julien is standing on the terrace of a ruined manor-house, watched by the Grandmother, While a chorus of Breton women sings before a wayside crucifix. Julien addresses the pitiless heavens, and is answered by the derisive Voices in the Tempest. Meanwhile the Grandmother advances; tones from the organ in the nearby church arouse Childhood recollections ln Julien' s breast, and ...
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Excerpt from Julien, or a Poet's Life: Lyric Poem in a Prologue, Four Acts and Eight Tableaux Wild landscape in Brittany, near the seashore. Tempest. Julien is standing on the terrace of a ruined manor-house, watched by the Grandmother, While a chorus of Breton women sings before a wayside crucifix. Julien addresses the pitiless heavens, and is answered by the derisive Voices in the Tempest. Meanwhile the Grandmother advances; tones from the organ in the nearby church arouse Childhood recollections ln Julien' s breast, and he hides his tearful face on the Grandmother' s shoulde.r She - fond memory of his happy youth would win him back to faith and hopeful resignation; there ensues a prolonged struggle between her kindly endeavor and the brutal blaspheming of the unseen choir of Hapless Poets for the possession of his soul. 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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