Recollections of Italy, England And America, With Essays On Various Subjects, in Morals And Literature
Recollections of Italy, England And America, With Essays On Various Subjects, in Morals And Literature
Chateaubriand, François-René, Vicomte De, 1768-1848
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and I used to ramble among the mountains of this frightful island, and lo$e ourselves amidst the fogs that perpetually prevail Digitized by VjOOQ lC~ TttB ISJLAN0 or GRACIO«A» : I7f there. The sensitive imaginatian of my frifltfi foxind plcasnre.in these sombre and ron^ntio scenes. Sometimes, when we wandered in til»^ midst of clouds and storms, listening to the roar- ing: waves which we could not discern, and lost ourselves upon a bleak desolate heath, or gazed at the red torrent which rolled ...among thd locks, T. . . ♦ would imagine himself to be the bard of Cona, and in his capacity of Demi-Scotchmah^ begin to declaim from Ossian, or sing to wild airs, composed upon the spot, passages from t)iat work. His music often led me back to ancient times— ^* 'Twas like the memory of joys that are past, pleasing and mournful to the sooL" I am extremely sorry that 1 did not write down the notes of some of these extraordinary songs, which would have astonished amateur^ and artists. I remember that we parsed a whole afternoon in raising four large stones, to the memory of an unfortunate man, in a little episode after the manner of Ossian, taken from my Pictures of Nature, — a production, known to some men of letters, which has been destroyed.
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