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318 FBOM NAPLES TO POMPEII.
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summ surroundin er residen gs . ces Very we at had tractive passed looking at Portici , substan and tial _Resina , well-to ; the -do and had of
Borbonico an latt ti er qui t lace ies museum fro ( Portici m Herculaneum ) in has Nap a les royal . Every palace Pompeii , house , since seemed removed a museu to have t o th a
flowers fountain slop splashing ing down in on the the court one -yard hand , to and the beautiful garden gay blue w bay ith ,
g C limpses _asteellamare , of which favour we ite ob summer tained from resort time swhic to h time we had . Sorrento not time ,
cours to visi e t , were never , poin los ted t si out ht to of us alt in houg the , dis we tance at las . t had Vesuvius it to , of
left rat , than looming g in fron , t of as . Bat at length , when there was nothing * particular to attract and in the the maccaroni road , or festoons beyond
lef it , t when behind the , we Hesina began cars to were weary scarce of a , road on which the dust and wearied heat became of the every more distant moment more s of the unendurable lovelMedit . We erranean even y
of the sterile cones of Vesuviu peep sand the black patches of lava , appoin visible tmen on i t t , we sides were , and called were on no , to t ali sorry tickets ght , , when and of admission af possible ter many , sha dis ke
being the dus purchased t off our o garm f the ents soldiers , whils guarding t the narrow gate were . of entrance which opened upon the " City of the and Dead t . " Our the
val _" firs et t turning place and to the a soldier right" accompanied we found us our , selves aking actually
treading No chance one of of the shade narrow here streets save , such of Pompeii as we . could obtain from
our umbrellasand theseas , wound in and out amongst the o roofless dis f unc pensed louded carcases with sunl , . , t _Never g h t spec on shall , that t the I day fo deser rget . The ted the room onl intense i y s t , races had heat wh of and ten verdure t g to lar be e t
the discoverab eye when le as first I looked entering round Pompeii for , some were t sm hng all tufts of ich maiden o res - ha to i - take r fern root , which and , notwithstanding spring in some the lack nook of moisture cranny , con f nearl trived y
but every tinguishes still building the its smallest growth . Not , frond amongst of up course of green , the with flashing was the luxuriance refreshing , fountains amidst which of Rome dis the - , d
this ourselves enormou deserted s . amount Most city , interesting of suggestive dull brick , m - of work ost reflections , w am onderfu ongst l poetic which and , uni we classical que foun , is ,
sentimental , mournful , & c , & c . ; but in itself , taken as a whole , beheld it struck me Seen as as the we most saw unp itin _icturesqu the lar e e mass of an of Italian ruin I noonday had ever
I longed . to throw a veil of ivy , over g the roofless masses of blank , walland the Gothic ruins of our own fairbut less " sunny
land , ; " rose as a refreshing contrast to my mind , . Subsequently
318 Fbom Naples To Pompeii.
318 FBOM NAPLES TO POMPEII .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 318, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/30/
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