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The Art Journal, Vol. 12: January, 1873 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Art Journal, Vol. 12: January, 1873
Great prominence is given in this poem to that exquisite greenness of the banks of the Moselle, which must have struck every traveller that has visited it in the early summer. Again and again Ausonius speaks of these vineyards which rise now, as they rose then, in natural theatres up the sunny hillsides: and he gives an animated pic ture of the jokes which passed at vintage time between those who were engaged in gathering the grapes and th...
Great prominence is given in this poem to that exquisite greenness of the banks of the Moselle, which must have struck every traveller that has visited it in the early summer. Again and again Ausonius speaks of these vineyards which rise now, as they rose then, in natural theatres up the sunny hillsides: and he gives an animated pic ture of the jokes which passed at vintage time between those who were engaged in gathering the grapes and th...