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I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.
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The stream from Wisdom's well,
Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Around the pillars of the palm-tree bower The orchids cling, in rose and purple spheres; Shield-broad the lily floats; the aloe flower Foredates its hundred years.
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
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True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
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I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
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Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future...
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
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Born:
January 11, 1825
Died:
December 19, 1878
(aged 53)
Bio:
Bayard Taylor was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat.
Known for:
Views a-foot (1846)
Eldorado (1850)
The story of Kennett (1866)
Poems of the Orient (1854)
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