Lynton And Lynmouth
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She met a sudden and unexplaineddeath off Duty Point, and the White Lady of Castle Rock--a phenomenoncaused by a small aperture, bearing a slight resemblance to a woman'sfigure, among the dark masses of the rock--is popularly supposed to beconnected with her fate. Of her brothers, Charles, the younger, waskilled at the Battle of Almanza in 1707, when the English, under LordGalway, lost 18, 000 men and all their transport, and the elder brother, John, died at Port Mahon, in Minorca, in 1721, whi...le on garrison duty, and this branch of the family became extinct.
[Illustration: Duty Point] And this is positively all the history of Lynton, until, in the time ofthe French Revolution, when the turbulent state of the Continent made itinadvisable to spend a holiday abroad, its beauty was discovered by thoseeager to find in England that enjoyment of the picturesque which beforethey had looked for in Italy and Southern France. We use "picturesque"now in a slightly derogatory sense, or we use it patronizingly, becauseit is old-fashioned and belongs to the nineteenth century, and Ruskin andWordsworth, and even Horace Walpole and his "Gothic" ruin on StrawberryHill; and we are of the twentieth century, and have discovered the beautyof docks and harbours and tall factory chimneys and railway stations, under the guidance of Whistler and Brangwyn and such folk, and we do notfret at laying a railway through Perthshire or the Lake District, becauserailways are fast becoming almost as romantic and old-fashioned to us asstage-coaches (in these days of aeroplanes and automobiles); but at leastlet us remember that it is to the nineteenth century that we owe thatacute appreciation, not only of the visible beauty of the world, but ofthe spirit that lies behind it, that personal and intimate character ofplaces which is one of our dear possessions.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
She met a sudden and unexplaineddeath off Duty Point, and the White Lady of Castle Rock--a phenomenoncaused by a small aperture, bearing a slight resemblance to a woman'sfigure, among the dark masses of the rock--is popularly supposed to beconnected with her fate. Of her brothers, Charles, the younger, waskilled at the Battle of Almanza in 1707, when the English, under LordGalway, lost 18, 000 men and all their transport, and the elder brother, John, died at Port Mahon, in Minorca, in 1721, whi...le on garrison duty, and this branch of the family became extinct.
[Illustration: Duty Point] And this is positively all the history of Lynton, until, in the time ofthe French Revolution, when the turbulent state of the Continent made itinadvisable to spend a holiday abroad, its beauty was discovered by thoseeager to find in England that enjoyment of the picturesque which beforethey had looked for in Italy and Southern France. We use "picturesque"now in a slightly derogatory sense, or we use it patronizingly, becauseit is old-fashioned and belongs to the nineteenth century, and Ruskin andWordsworth, and even Horace Walpole and his "Gothic" ruin on StrawberryHill; and we are of the twentieth century, and have discovered the beautyof docks and harbours and tall factory chimneys and railway stations, under the guidance of Whistler and Brangwyn and such folk, and we do notfret at laying a railway through Perthshire or the Lake District, becauserailways are fast becoming almost as romantic and old-fashioned to us asstage-coaches (in these days of aeroplanes and automobiles); but at leastlet us remember that it is to the nineteenth century that we owe thatacute appreciation, not only of the visible beauty of the world, but ofthe spirit that lies behind it, that personal and intimate character ofplaces which is one of our dear possessions.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Presland John to read onlineMoreLess
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