At Home and Abroad: Or, Things and Thoughts in America and EuropeAssociated Faculty Press, Incorporated, 1971 - 466 էջ Excerpt from At Home and Abroad: Or Things and Thoughts in America and Europe The second part of the present volume gives my sis ter's impressions and observations during her European journey and residence in Italy. This is done through let ters, which originally appeared in the New York Tribune. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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... seemed hovering in their glorious white robes . Words are idle on such subjects ; what can I say , but that it was a noble vision , that satisfied the eye and stirred the imagina- tion in all its secret pulses ? Had that been , as ...
... seemed to denote that there was some- thing real and vital going on , and , while time would not permit my visiting other private collections in London and its neigh- borhood , I insisted on taking it for one of Turner's pictures . It ...
... seemed to see the old dentist , as I had for the moment before I inhaled the gas , amid his plants , in his night- cap and dressing - gown ; in the twilight the figure had somewhat of a Faust - like , magical air , and he seemed to say ...