. Backgrounds of literature. eethrough John Ridds eyes; and, honest and lit-eral as the slow-thinking but stout-hearted loverof Lorna was, his imagination was not un-touched by the wild tales and superstitious fearsof his time. Coming out of this lonely valley, with its191 THE LAND OF LORNA DOONE tragic legend of ancient wrong rudely avenged,and its tender story of old-time love transmutedinto lifelong happiness, one is prepared for thenoble drive across the summits of the hills, splen-did beyond words with the purple of the bell-heather, mile upon mile of unbroken coloragainst the sky, with l
. Backgrounds of literature. eethrough John Ridds eyes; and, honest and lit-eral as the slow-thinking but stout-hearted loverof Lorna was, his imagination was not un-touched by the wild tales and superstitious fearsof his time. Coming out of this lonely valley, with its191 THE LAND OF LORNA DOONE tragic legend of ancient wrong rudely avenged,and its tender story of old-time love transmutedinto lifelong happiness, one is prepared for thenoble drive across the summits of the hills, splen-did beyond words with the purple of the bell-heather, mile upon mile of unbroken coloragainst the sky, with long contrasts of yellowgorse; the great cliiFs green or bare to thewater, and the sea softly blue in the long sum-mer twilight; a noble country, molded on largelines, with a richness of verdure which has itsroots in unnumbered centuries; lonely heaths,great hills shouldering one another to the lineof the sky, and a valley sacred to the memory ofa beautiful romance and of a novelist whotouched the heart of his generation. 192. AMERICA IN WHITMANS POETRY 1i AMERICA IN WHITMANS POETRY
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