Ceres' Runaway, and Other Essays

Ceres' Runaway, and Other Essays

Ceres' Runaway, and Other EssaysOne can hardly be dull possessing the pleasant imaginary picture of a Municipality...
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Author: Meynell, Alice,1847-1922
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Ceres' Runaway, and Other Essays

Ceres' Runaway, and Other Essays

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Ceres' Runaway, and Other Essays

$17.78 $8.89
Author: Meynell, Alice,1847-1922
Format: eBook
Language: English

Ceres' Runaway, and Other Essays

One can hardly be dull possessing the pleasant imaginary picture of a Municipality hot in chase of a wild cropat least while the charming quarry escapes, as it does in Rome. The Municipality does not exist that would be nimble enough to overtake the Roman growth of green in the high places of the city. It is true that there have been the famous capturesthose in the Colosseum, and in the Baths of Caracalla; moreover a less conspicuous running to earth takes place on the Appian Way, in some miles of the solitude of the Campagna, where men are employed in weeding the roadside. They slowly uproot the grass and lay it on the ancient stonesrows of little corpsesfor sweeping up, as at Upper Tooting; one wonders why. The governors of the city will not succeed in making the Via Appia look busy, or its stripped stones suggestive of a thriving commerce. Again, at the cemetery within the now torn and shattered Aurelian wall by the Porta San Paolo, they are often mowing of buttercups. A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread, says Shelley, whose child lies between Keats and the pyramid. But a couple of active scythes are kept at work there summer and springnot that the grass is long, for it is much overtopped by the bee-orchis, but because flowers are not to laugh within reach of the civic vigilance. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 1295
Author: Meynell, Alice
Release Date: Apr 1, 1998
Format: eBook
Language: English

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