EBOOK Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus - Mrs. Turnbull Lawrence

EBOOK Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus
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Autor: Mrs. Turnbull Lawrence

 Wydawnictwo: pubOne
ISBN: 9782819903789
EAN: 36821FCAEB
Format: 0,0 x 0,0 x 0,0
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Stron: 368
Data wydania: 2010
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Among the day-dreams of the Rulers of Venice the island of Cyprus had long loomed large and fair - Cyprus, the happy isle of romance, l'isola fortunata, sea-girdled, clothed with dense forests of precious woods, veined with inexhaustible mines of rich metals; a very garden of luscious fruits, garlanded with ever-blooming flowers - a land flowing with milk and honey and steeped in the fragrance of wines that a god might covet. Kypros - Paphos - a theme for poets, where Aphrodite rose from the foam of the sea, and the fabled groves of the mysteries of Venus gave place to primitive shrines of Christian worship, while innumerable Grecian legends were merged in early Christian traditions, imparting some of their own tint of fable, yet baptizing anew the groves and hillsides to sanctity. Beautiful hillsides, rippling down to the sea-coasts; and plains, nestling among the mountain slopes, littered with remnants of vast temples of superb pagan workmanship and with priceless pre-historic remains: wonderful, ancient marbles, time-mellowed and crumbling, inwrought rather with barbaric symbols of splendor than with the tender grace of poetic suggestion

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