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Romola

Romola

Eliot, George

Paperback

HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $36.09

ISBN10: 173170593X
ISBN13: 9781731705938
Publisher: Simon & Brown
Published: Nov 15 2018
Pages: 708
Weight: 2.25
Height: 1.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Book Excerpt: ll go down and hear--I will tread the familiar pavement, and hear once again the speech of Florentines.Go not down, good Spirit! for the changes are great and the speech of Florentines would sound as a riddle in your ears. Or, if you go, mingle with no politicians on the marmi, or elsewhere; ask no questions about trade in the Calimara; confuse yourself with no inquiries into scholarship, official or monastic. Only look at the sunlight and shadows on the grand walls that were built solidly, and have endured in their grandeur; look at the faces of the little children, making another sunlight amid the shadows of age; look, if you will, into the churches, and hear the same chants, see the same images as of old--the images of willing anguish for a great end, of beneficent love and ascending glory; see upturned living faces, and lips moving to the old prayers for help. These things have not changed. The sunlight and shadows bring their old beauty and waken the old heart-strains at morning, noon, Read Mor

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