Author: Alphonse de Lamartine

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780243935789

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Excerpt from The Stonecutter of St. Point: A Village Tale Discoloured with rain, and clad in mosses grey with the age of centuries, overhang these like lofty pyramids. The eye of the traveller passes rapidly from one of these towers to another, as if he could discern, on the right and left, the land marks of a Roman way along the route of this populous country. Beneath the shadow of these towers, whence each inhabitant listens to the voice of the birth-song and the toll of the death-knell, the churchyard mallow is seen to flourish. Here do the toiling vine-dressers of these mountains find their only rest, who, for sixty or four score years, have fed their wives and children with the hard sweat of labour. An air of gentle gladness seems to sport in the rays of the sun, in the rippling brooks, in the sunny lustre of the huts, in the hay maker's carol, and in the music of the village -bells. The heavens are benignant, and the earth smiles, repeats the tra veller to himself. Here I should love to dwell. And a spirit of sadness falls upon him, he knows not why, as he leaves behind him a country so favoured and inviting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Stonecutter of St. Point written by Alphonse de Lamartine and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Stonecutter of St. Point: A Village Tale Discoloured with rain, and clad in mosses grey with the age of centuries, overhang these like lofty pyramids. The eye of the traveller passes rapidly from one of these towers to another, as if he could discern, on the right and left, the land marks of a Roman way along the route of this populous country. Beneath the shadow of these towers, whence each inhabitant listens to the voice of the birth-song and the toll of the death-knell, the churchyard mallow is seen to flourish. Here do the toiling vine-dressers of these mountains find their only rest, who, for sixty or four score years, have fed their wives and children with the hard sweat of labour. An air of gentle gladness seems to sport in the rays of the sun, in the rippling brooks, in the sunny lustre of the huts, in the hay maker's carol, and in the music of the village -bells. The heavens are benignant, and the earth smiles, repeats the tra veller to himself. Here I should love to dwell. And a spirit of sadness falls upon him, he knows not why, as he leaves behind him a country so favoured and inviting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.