File:Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna (1877) (14590670389).jpg

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Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ept road between the houses all the way to Massa. But all of us,—we in the leafy groves, or on the flat roof of the humble vintager, andthose yonder in the first-class hotel,—all think, after our different fashions, of the ill-starred Tasso, whose songs, like those of Byron and Goethe, are the common property ofall nations. We see the singer of the Gerusalemme Liberata returning pale andmiserable from the world, from the struggle for fame, to where roses bloom and grapesripen and careless peace is reigning; and the words rise to our lips, Live, oh heart!Take heed to live ! And Tassos verses recur to our memory : Thus passes, like the passing of a day, Of mortal life the freshness and the flower ;Nor, though the Spring return to earth, can May Make our lost youth rebloom with bud and bower.Gather the dewy rose whilst mornings ray Adorns it, ere the noontides scorching power !Gather loves rose whilst ye can taste its sweetness ; To love beloved again, is loves completeness.—TASSO.
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FROM A VILLA, CASTELLAMARE. A SEA VOYAGE FROM BAI/E TO SALERNO. 409 Sorrento, too, lives but in the present. Those who come hither seem to look intothe face of Spring ; and no one would think of raising the veil of ivy from the forehead ofsome crumbling temple, to explore the secrets of the past. Already in the later days of

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