Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . ually, too, weabandoned the first and larger plan ofgoing on the jaunt to Brindisi, of theFifth Satire, and on the other LittleTours, for, to get through, we shouldhave had, with him, to spread them overa lifetime. Besides, the country ofHorace is really the country of the Sa-bine Farm, only about twenty-eight milesfrom Rome, and through Rome we hadto pass on our way to Naples. It wasthere he was at home, as Virgil wasin Mantuan pastures, there he found thebackground to his Odes; it was there hetook his meals before his house
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . ually, too, weabandoned the first and larger plan ofgoing on the jaunt to Brindisi, of theFifth Satire, and on the other LittleTours, for, to get through, we shouldhave had, with him, to spread them overa lifetime. Besides, the country ofHorace is really the country of the Sa-bine Farm, only about twenty-eight milesfrom Rome, and through Rome we hadto pass on our way to Naples. It wasthere he was at home, as Virgil wasin Mantuan pastures, there he found thebackground to his Odes; it was there hetook his meals before his household gods,there he hid when the craving came toforget everybody and be himself forgot,there he built the house with the gardenand the wood and the little spring closeby. It has been said that the classic poetswere indifferent to scenery, though itplays so large a part in their and Horace lived in lovely places,not of their own choice, but thanksto the whim of a patron. You maysay, too, that the picturesque is every-where in Italy, and that the trouble. NAPLES, FROM VIRGILS TOMB 872 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. would be to escape it. But it wouldbe more amazing still if mere chancealone always served them so well. Itwas pictures, pictures, all the way fromthe Villa of the Esquiline the hot Maymorning when we crossed the Campagna,less solemn and desolate in his day, butwith the same wide vistas, to Tivoli, theancient Tibur, where he made a half-way house of that other villa of Maece-nas. The town is almost exaggeratedin its picturesqueness, perched on theheights, where the broad table-land fallsabruptly to the Campagna. It might bethe invention of Claude or Poussin inhis most inspired moment, so admirablyis it composed, though there is one viewthat not Claude, or Poussin, or Turner,or any of the men who painted and drewcastles and rocks and raging torrents,when the picturesque was in fashion,could have invented. The gray hills ofolives open in gentle slopes to show ahig
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