The French Revolution : a history . and Nature, in an age of Artificiality, Pollutionand Cant; there, in her still completeness, in her stillinvincibility, she, if thou knew it, is the noblest of allliving Frenchwomen,—and will be seen, one day. O,blessed rather while ««seen, even of herself! For thepresent she gazes, nothing doubting, into this grandtheatricality; and thinks her young dreams are to befulfilled. From dawn to dusk, as we said, it lasts ; and truly asight like few. Flourishes of drums and trumpets aresomething: but think of an artificial Rock fifty feethigh, all cut into crag-st
The French Revolution : a history . and Nature, in an age of Artificiality, Pollutionand Cant; there, in her still completeness, in her stillinvincibility, she, if thou knew it, is the noblest of allliving Frenchwomen,—and will be seen, one day. O,blessed rather while ««seen, even of herself! For thepresent she gazes, nothing doubting, into this grandtheatricality; and thinks her young dreams are to befulfilled. From dawn to dusk, as we said, it lasts ; and truly asight like few. Flourishes of drums and trumpets aresomething: but think of an artificial Rock fifty feethigh, all cut into crag-steps, not without the similitudeof shrubs ! The interior cavity,—for in sooth it ismade of deal,—stands solemn, a Temple of Concord :on the outer summit rises a Statue of Liberty, colossal,seen for miles, with her Pike and Phrygian Cap,^ and Madame Roland, Mdmoires, i. (Discours Prdliminaire, p. 23)- ^ [Phrygian cap : the cap of liberty, because associated with thewild rites of Cybele and Bacchus. This cap was not generally. Pin IW
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