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Title: A tour through the Pyrenees
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893 Fiske, John Safford, 1838-1907, (from old catalog) tr Dore, Gustave, 1832-1883, (from old catalog) illus
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Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ecies.He lectured me severely, according to his custom,and called me narrow-minded ; he maintains thatall is beautiful; that all that is necessary is to putyourself at the right point of view. His reasoningwas nearly as follows: He claims that things please us by contrast, andthat beautiful thing-s are different for difterent souls. One day, said he, I was travelling with someEnglish people in Champagne, on a cloudy day inSeptember, lliey found the plains horrible, and Iadmirable. The dull fields stretched out like a seato the very verge of the horizon, without encoun-tering a hill. The stalks of the close-reaped wheatdyed the earth with a wan yellow ; the plain seemedcovered with an old wet mantle. Here were linesof deformed elms ; here and there a meagre squareof fir-trees ; further off a cottage of chalk with itswhite pool: from furrow to furrow the sun trailedits sickly light, and the earth, emptied of its fruits,was like a woman dead in child-bed whose infantthey have taken away.
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Chap. III. SAINT-SAUVEUR.—BAREGES. 285 My companions were utterly bored, and calleddown curses on France. Their minds, strained bythe rude passions of politics, by the national arro-gance, and the stiffness of scriptural morality,needed repose. They wanted a smiling andflowery country, meadows soft and still, fineshadows, largely and harmoniously grouped on theslopes of the hills. .The sunburnt peasants, dull ofcountenance, sitting near a pool of mud, were dis-agreeable to them. For repose, they dreamed ofpretty cottages set in fresh turf, fringed with rosyhoneysuckle. Nothing could be more reasonable.A man obliged to hold himself upright and unbend-ing finds a sitting posture the most beautiful. , You go to Versailles, and you cry out againstthe taste of the seventeenth century. Those for-mal and monumental waters, the firs turned in thelathe, the rectangular staircases heaped one aboveanother, the trees drawn up like grenadiers onparade, recall to you the geometry class and thepla

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