A tour through the Pyrenees . Hved out-of-doors, scarcely readat all, and thought only of giving a feast for theireyes. It is for that that I love them; I feel likethem because I am of their century. Sympathy isthe best source of admiration and pleasure. III. Below the museum is a square tower enclosed bya gallery of slender columns, which towards the topbend and are cut into trefoils, forming a border ofarcades. They have gathered under this galleryall the antiquities of the country: fragments ofRoman statues, severe busts of emperors, asceticvirgins of the middle ages, bas-reliefs from churc
A tour through the Pyrenees . Hved out-of-doors, scarcely readat all, and thought only of giving a feast for theireyes. It is for that that I love them; I feel likethem because I am of their century. Sympathy isthe best source of admiration and pleasure. III. Below the museum is a square tower enclosed bya gallery of slender columns, which towards the topbend and are cut into trefoils, forming a border ofarcades. They have gathered under this galleryall the antiquities of the country: fragments ofRoman statues, severe busts of emperors, asceticvirgins of the middle ages, bas-reliefs from churchesand temples, knights of stone lying all armedupon their tombs. The court was deserted andsilent ; tall slender trees, tufted shrubbery, werebright with the loveliest green. A dazzling sun-light fell on the red tiles of the gallery ; an oldfountain, loaded with little columns and heads ofanimals, murmured near to a bench of rose-veinedmarble. A statue of a young man was seenamidst the branches ; stems of green hops climbed. Chap. VI. TOULOUSE. 52: up around broken columns. This mixture of rusticobjects and objects of art, these wrecks of two deadciviHzations and the youth of flowery plants, thejoyous rays on the old tiles, united in their con-trasts all that I had seen for two months.
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