History of Charles the Bold, Vol. 3: Duke of Burgundy (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

John Foster Kirk

9780365178507: History of Charles the Bold, Vol. 3: Duke of Burgundy (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0365178500 ISBN 13: 9780365178507

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Excerpt from History of Charles the Bold, Vol. 3: Duke of Burgundy

When the spectators on the Rigi have watched successive groups of giant Alps rise out of the night, and receive on their icy brows warm kisses from the radiant dawn, the eye turns in quest of further mar vels to the opposite quarter of the panorama, across table-lands and plains dotted With towns and lakes, and bounded by the distant chain of the Jurah But there the horizon offers none of the grand and en trancing aspects of a mountain range. That long, straight, dusky line, With no variety of form or play of color, belongs not to, the picture, but to the frame.

If we transfer our point of View to the Lake of vol. 111. 1 (1)

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