This, indeed, is the only destiny one can imagine for them. The past of such a place must have been as bucolic as its present: the medi�val keep, crumbling on its wooded spur above the Rhine, was surely perched there that the lords of the valley might have an eye to the grazing cattle and command the manoeuvres of the mowers. The noble Georgiis who lived in the escutcheoned houses of Spl�gen, and now lie under such a wealth of quarterings in the church and graveyard, must have been experts in fertilizers and stock ...
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This, indeed, is the only destiny one can imagine for them. The past of such a place must have been as bucolic as its present: the medi�val keep, crumbling on its wooded spur above the Rhine, was surely perched there that the lords of the valley might have an eye to the grazing cattle and command the manoeuvres of the mowers. The noble Georgiis who lived in the escutcheoned houses of Spl�gen, and now lie under such a wealth of quarterings in the church and graveyard, must have been experts in fertilizers and stock-raising; nor can one figure, even for the seventeenth-century mercenary of the name, whose epitaph declares him to have been "captain of his Spanish Majesty's cohorts," emotions more poignant, when he came home from the wars, than that evoked by the tinkle of cow-bells in the pasture, and the vision of a table groaning with smoked beef and cyclopean cheeses.
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Very Good + No DJ. Third Printing. n/a. 12mo = 7-9" 214pp. Softcover. Clean interior and exterior. No highlights or markings in text. Strong and tight binding.
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