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Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete. Hawthorne Nathaniel
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Автор произведения Hawthorne Nathaniel
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By and by we left the casino and wandered among the grounds, threading interminable alleys of cypress, through the long vistas of which we could see here and there a statue, an urn, a pillar, a temple, or garden-house, or a bas-relief against the wall. It seems as if there must have been a time, and not so very long ago, – when it was worth while to spend money and thought upon the ornamentation of grounds in the neighborhood of Rome. That time is past, however, and the result is very melancholy; for great beauty has been produced, but it can be enjoyed in its perfection only at the peril of one's life… For my part, and judging from my own experience, I suspect that the Roman atmosphere, never wholesome, is always more or less poisonous.
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