Identifier: argosythe47wood (find matches)
Title: The Argosy
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Wood, Henry, Mrs., 1814-1887 Wood, Charles W. (Charles William), b. 1850?
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Publisher: London (etc.) R. Bentley (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ded man crowned with laurel, holding a Cornucopia, and supported by the wolf and Romulus and Remus. But instead of bringing abundance to Rome, she has with persistent cruelty overflowed her banks from time to time, and worked misery and devastation. Sometimes for I days the whole city has been under water, so that it has been said : nothing was visible but the tops of the hills. Another Deluge, I \vithout the consoling symbols of the dove and the olive branch and j the arc in the sky. And from the days of Romes greatness until now, she has baflled all attempts to keep her within bounds. Ecco Roma! As the postilion exclaimed the words, every species of emotionwould fill the travellers breast; a crowd of recollections rise up inhis mind; he would beg for time to contemplate the wonderful pano-rama ; to take in all the ghostly visions that passed in array beforehis imagination. A moment for exquisite silence and thought :thought which expresses itself in feeling rather than in words. And
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