Read more
Excerpt from A Pilgrimage to the Land of the Cid
Fully. Scattered it throughout creation, and if he decreed that the) World 'work of his hands should be good, he also decreed that it'should be beau tiful. Vt'hat poet 'has ever conceived, what architect has ever designed, a sanctuary comparabl'e to that which the Eternal has built for' himself in the profoundest depths of the Pyrenees, an isolated spot, Where he is [adored by herdsmen only? It is called the Circle of Gavarnie. 'but instead of a circle, represent to yourself the apsis bf a temple, hewn out of rocks two thousand four hundred feet high: On reaching the base of these prodigious walls, we saw their summits, stinged with the roseate clouds fof a setting.
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.
