Lanterna Rally

Author: William Whiteman Fosdick

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-21

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9781333304492

Excerpt from Malmiztic the Toltec: And the Cavaliers of the Cross Time, like distance, lends enchantment to the view, and the pictures of the past, seen through the mellow light of centuries, become soft and beau tiful to the sight, like the shadowy outlines of far off mountain peaks, whose purple heads half hide themselves behind a screen of clouds. From the ruined temples of Rome, and the sacred groves of Greece, the voice of Genius has, time and again, called forth the spirits of Truth and Fiction, who have walked those sequestered valleys and retired shades, hand in hand, since the hours when Socrates spoke his words of wisdom, and Sappho sang her wild and Witching lays; and though a thousand feet have trod the Arcadian vale, yet still its owers are ever fresh, its forests green and glorious, and old Olympus, with his snow-clad crown, is yet the majestic monarch unshorn of his grandeur, and from whose iron-armed oaks the rushing wings of Time have not swept a single leaf into the stream of history, but has oated away to posterity stamped with its own story, a frail, but imperishable chronicle, to tell of Greece forever! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."