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Roman Holidays and Others (Paperback)
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Roman Holidays and Others (Paperback)
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No drop-curtain, at any theatre I have seen, was ever so richly
imagined, with misty tops and shadowy clefts and frowning cliffs
and gloomy valleys and long, plunging cataracts, as the actual
landscape of Madeira, when we drew nearer and nearer to it, at the
close of a tearful afternoon of mid-January. The scenery of
drop-curtains is often very holdly beautiful, but here Nature, if
she had taken a hint from art, had certainly bettered her
instruction. During the waits between acts at the theatre, while
studying the magnificent painting beyond the trouble of the
orchestra, I have been most impressed by the splendid variety which
the artist had got into his picture, where the spacious frame lent
itself to his passion for saying everything; but I remembered his
thronging fancies as meagre and scanty in the presence of the
stupendous reality before me. I have, for instance, not even
mentioned the sea, which swept smoother and smoother in toward the
feet of those precipices and grew more and more trans-lucently
purple and yellow and green, while half a score of cascades shot
straight down their fronts in shafts of snowy foam, and over their
pachydermatous shoulders streamed and hung long reaches of gray
vines or mosses.
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