The Duke's Prize
by Maturin Murray Ballou
2020-12-29 00:37:46
Lend thy serious hearing to what I shall unfold.-Hamlet.COME with me, gentle reader, on the wings of fancy into the mild and genial latitude of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The delightful region of the Mediterranean has been the poet''s ready theme for ages; ...
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Lend thy serious hearing to what I shall unfold.-Hamlet.COME with me, gentle reader, on the wings of fancy into the mild and genial latitude of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The delightful region of the Mediterranean has been the poet''s ready theme for ages; then let us thitherward, with high hopes (and appreciating eyes) to enjoy the storied scenery of its shores. Touch, if you will, at Gibraltar; see how the tide flows through the straits! We go in with a flowing sail, and now we are at Corsica, Napoleon''s home. Let us stop at Sardinia, with its wealth of tropical fruits; and we will even down to Sicily,-for this mimic ocean teems with subjects to delight the eye even of the most casual observer, with its majestic boundary of Alps and Apennines, and the velvet carpet of its romantic shores, while its broad breast is dotted with the sails of the picturesque craft whose rig is peculiar to these seas.
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