The Mount Narrative of a Visit to the Site of a Gaulish City On Mont Beuvray W
The Mount Narrative of a Visit to the Site of a Gaulish City On Mont Beuvray W
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It would be in the highest degree interest- ing to visit such a place as Augustodunum, which must have been a very perfect specimen of a Gallo-Roman city, with the special advan- tage of a very exceptionally fine situation ; but the mediaeval city must have been incom- 156 Autun.
parably more to our taste, and perhaps even the town, as it exists at present, may have certain advantages over its predecessors, in spite of the constant destruction which has been going on for the last three hundred ...years. It has more variety, which is something, and it bears the traces of a longer past. We ought to remember, what we very easily forget, that when mediaeval architecture was new it had nothing whatever of that romantic power over the mind which it now derives from its an- tiquity and from the contrast between the pathos of its ruinous beauty and the unfeeling prose of a century so prosaic and so mechani- cal as ours. For us the walls and towers of a mediaeval town are connected with the descrip- tions of our modern poets and novelists, who have thrown over them all the enchantments of genius, and they are contrasted by us with the ugly and dirty buildings we see in our " hives of industry, " which the mediaeval mind could no more imagine than it could foresee the electric telegraph.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It would be in the highest degree interest- ing to visit such a place as Augustodunum, which must have been a very perfect specimen of a Gallo-Roman city, with the special advan- tage of a very exceptionally fine situation ; but the mediaeval city must have been incom- 156 Autun.
parably more to our taste, and perhaps even the town, as it exists at present, may have certain advantages over its predecessors, in spite of the constant destruction which has been going on for the last three hundred ...years. It has more variety, which is something, and it bears the traces of a longer past. We ought to remember, what we very easily forget, that when mediaeval architecture was new it had nothing whatever of that romantic power over the mind which it now derives from its an- tiquity and from the contrast between the pathos of its ruinous beauty and the unfeeling prose of a century so prosaic and so mechani- cal as ours. For us the walls and towers of a mediaeval town are connected with the descrip- tions of our modern poets and novelists, who have thrown over them all the enchantments of genius, and they are contrasted by us with the ugly and dirty buildings we see in our " hives of industry, " which the mediaeval mind could no more imagine than it could foresee the electric telegraph.
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