. Italian journeys / by Howells ; with one hundred and three illustrations by Joseph is the beautiful residenceof that ill-starred prince—the Miramare, where the half-crazed Empress of the Mexicans vainly waits her husbandsreturn from the experiment of paternal government in theNew World. It would be hard to tell how Art has charmedrock and wave at Miramare, until the spur of one of thoserugged Triestine hills, jutting into the sea, has been madethe seat of ease and luxury, but the visitor is aware of themagic as soon as he passes the gate of the palace are in grea
. Italian journeys / by Howells ; with one hundred and three illustrations by Joseph is the beautiful residenceof that ill-starred prince—the Miramare, where the half-crazed Empress of the Mexicans vainly waits her husbandsreturn from the experiment of paternal government in theNew World. It would be hard to tell how Art has charmedrock and wave at Miramare, until the spur of one of thoserugged Triestine hills, jutting into the sea, has been madethe seat of ease and luxury, but the visitor is aware of themagic as soon as he passes the gate of the palace are in great part perpendicular, and are over clam-bered with airy stairways climbing to pensile horizontal, they are diversified with mimic seas forswans to sail upon, and summer-houses for people to loungein and look at the swans from. On the point of landfurthest from the acclivity stands the Castle of Miramare,half at sea, and half adrift in the clouds above :— And fain it would stoop downwardTo the mirrored wave below ;And fain it would soar upwardIn the evenings crimson 1. ^ki QtOAlA ( CUUll .l^UAtjL. 3 t a 11 a n 3 0 t»»- ? 9 Trieste £S
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