EBOOK Essays - Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell

EBOOK Essays

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Autor: Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell

Wydawnictwo: pubOne
ISBN: 9782819932277
EAN: B7BE2047EB
Format: 0,0 x 0,0 x 0,0
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Stron: 291
Data wydania: 2010
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pubOne.info present you this new edition. One can hardly be dull possessing the pleasant imaginary picture of a Municipality hot in chase of a wild crop- at least while the charming quarry escapes, as it does in Rome. The Municipality does not exist that would be nimble enough to overtake the Roman growth of green in the high places of the city. It is true that there have been the famous captures- those in the Colosseum, and in the Baths of Caracalla; moreover a less conspicuous running to earth takes place on the Appian Way, in some miles of the solitude of the Campagna, where men are employed in weeding the roadside. They slowly uproot the grass and lay it on the ancient stones- rows of little corpses- for sweeping up, as at Upper Tooting; one wonders why. The governors of the city will not succeed in making the Via Appia look busy, or its stripped stones suggestive of a thriving commerce. Again, at the cemetery within the now torn and shattered Aurelian wall by the Porta San Paolo, they are often mowing of buttercups. "e;A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread, "e; says Shelley, whose child lies between Keats and the pyramid

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