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AND ITALY.
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aware of all the awe the spirit feels when we are taken to a mountain top, and behold the earth spread out fair at our feet: nor of the delight a traveller receives when, at the close of a day’s travel, he—
“Obtains the brow of some high-climbing hill,
Which, to his eye, discovers unawares
The goodly prospect of some foreign land
First seen; or some renowned metropolis,
With glistening spires and pinnacles adorned,
Which now the setting sun gilds with his beams.”[1]
It was dark when we descended into the town: as we crossed the bridge, the waters of the Danube gleamed beneath the hills.
We repaired to the hotel of the Goldener Löwe, which we find comfortable and good.
- ↑ Milton. Do these lines, in the “Paradise Lost,” refer in the
poet’s mind to his first view of Florence? It seems very probable.
