“ every thing is grand, noble, free, and yet beautiful ”
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (1854). copy citation
Author | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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Source | Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands |
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Date | 1854 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6931/pg6931-images.html |
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“Here in the Alps, heaven above and earth beneath, tree, rock, water, light and shadow, every form, and agent, and power of nature, seem to be exerting themselves to produce a constant and changing poem and romance; every thing is grand, noble, free, and yet beautiful: in all these regions there is nothing so repulsive as a human dwelling.
A little further on we stopped at a village to refresh the horses. The auberge where we stopped was built like a great barn, with an earth floor, desolate and comfortless.”
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