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The Alps
Overview
JOHN RUSKIN, in a fine and famous passage, describes the effect of a first view of the Alps upon a young and sensitive mind. He was at Schaffhausen with his parents. "We must have spent some time in town-seeing," he writes, "for it was drawing towards sunset when we got up to some sort of garden promenade-west of the town, I believe; and high above the Rhine, so as to command the open country across it to the south and west. At which open country of low undulation, far into blue-gazing as at one of our own distances from Malvern of Worcestershire, or Dorking of Kent, -suddenly-behold-beyond
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- ISBN-13: 9781517699727
- ISBN-10: 151769972X
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: October 2015
- Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.26 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.39 pounds
- Page Count: 124
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