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Title: With Shelley in Italy : being a selection of the poems and letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 McMahan, Anna Benneson
Subjects: Poetry of places -- Italy Italy -- Description and travel Poetry
Publisher: Chicago : McClurg
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rhanging it with their hoary branches.But usually the immediate border of this shore is com-posed of laurel-trees, and bay, and myrtle, and wild-figtrees, and olives, which grow in the crevices of the rocks,and overhang the caverns, and shadow the deep glens,which are filled with the flashing light of the waterfalls.Other flowering shrubs, whicli I cannot name, grow therealso. On high, the towers of village churches are seenwhite among the dark forests. Beyond, on the oppositeshore, whicli faces the south, the mountains descend lessprecipitously to the lake, and although they are much higher,and some covered with perpetual snow, there intervenesbetween them and the lake a range of lower hills, which 1 Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), novelist and poet of some dis-tinction in his time. He was the warm friend of Shelley and his constantcorrespondent aftei* his departure from England. Unless otherwise stated,all the letters in this collection were addi-cssed to Mr. Peacock in London. (6)
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o THE YEAR 1818 have glens and rifts opening to the other, such as I shoukifancy the abi/sses of Ida or Parnassus. Here are planta-tions of olive, and orange, and lemon trees, which are nowso loaded with fruit, that there is more fruit than leaves,— and vineyards. This shore of the lake is one continuedvillage, and the Milanese nobility have their villas here.The union of culture and the untameable profusion andloveliness of nature is here so close, that the line wherethey are divided can hardly be discovered. But the finestscenery is that of the Yilla Pliniana ; so called from afountain which ebbs and flows every three hours, describedby the younger Pliny, which is in the court-yard. Thishouse, which was once a magnificent palace, and is nowhalf in ruins, we are endeavouring to procure. It is builtupon terraces raised from the bottom of the lake, togetherwith its garden, at the foot of a semicircular precipice,overshadowed by profound forests of chestnut. The scenefrom the colonnad

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