Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . t to be viewed, like the full-blownrose, in its completeness, and not examined leaf by leaf so as to give no conception of itin its entirety. Even as the rose is the rose by its combination of colour, form, andfragrance, so is Naples only Naples by the combination of land, sea, and city. It consistsof these three, and must be looked at in its triple form in order to be thoroughly land runs back from the shore in manifold varieties of form :—mountain and valley,rock and ravine. But each melts softly into the other. Soft, too, are the lines in whic
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . t to be viewed, like the full-blownrose, in its completeness, and not examined leaf by leaf so as to give no conception of itin its entirety. Even as the rose is the rose by its combination of colour, form, andfragrance, so is Naples only Naples by the combination of land, sea, and city. It consistsof these three, and must be looked at in its triple form in order to be thoroughly land runs back from the shore in manifold varieties of form :—mountain and valley,rock and ravine. But each melts softly into the other. Soft, too, are the lines in whichit meets the horizon ; there is nothing harsh, nothing rugged ; a master-hand has modelledhere. You cannot think that this land assumed its present form by the agency of Titanicforces. No, it arose under the fostering care of friendly gods ; and even now they tendand cherish it. They have decked their favourite soil of Campania, lovingly, as a brideis decked for her marriage. The vineyards are spread like a network over hill and. FISHERMAN OF GAETA. TRIUMPHAL ARCH OF KING ALFONSO. OF THE UNIVERSITY CF flJLWW KNOWST THOU THE LAND? 359 valley down to the very shore. Wherever there is a prop, a tree, a shrub, it is seized onby the joyful and victorious vine. And the most exquisite grapes grow on these vines :—grapes from which the divine juice is pressed that gives Naples its peculiar consecra-tion,—that fills it with the careless gaiety which is for ever alien to the native countries ofhops and barley. Amid the vines are crowded orange and lemon trees, covered in summer with athousand starry white blossoms, in winter with shining fruit, and surrounded at all seasons
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