Walks in Rome, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Augustus J. C. Hare
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365216803
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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Excerpt from Walks in Rome, Vol. 1 of 2 An arrival in Rome is very different to that in any other town in Europe. It is coming to a place new and yet most familiar, strange and yet so well known. When travellers arrive at Verona, for instance, or at Arles, they generally go to the amphitheatres with a curiosity to know what they are like but when they arrive at Rome and go to the Coliseum, it is to visit an Object whose appear ance has been familiar to them from childhood, and, long ere it is reached, from the heights of the distant Capitol they can recog nise the well-known form - and as regards S. Peter's, who is not familiar with the aspect of the dome, of the wide-spreading piazza, and the foaming fountains, for long years before they come to gaze upon the reality? My presentiment of the emotions with which I should behold the Roman ruins has proved quite correct, ' wrote Niebuhr. Nothing about them is new to me as a child I lay so often, for hours to gether, before their pictures, that their i es were, even at that early age, as distinctly impressed upon my m nd as if I had actually seen them.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.