| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 500 pages
...fractures or menace thereof. The music of the Cows' bells (for their wealth, like the Patriarchs', is cattle) in the pastures, (which reach to a height...have ever heard or imagined of a pastoral existence : l — much more so than Greece or Asia Minor, for there we are a little too much of the sabre and... | |
| George Wilson Knight - England - 2002 - 416 pages
...found them in Switzerland: The music of the Cows' bells (for their wealth, like the Patriarchs', is cattle) in the pastures (which reach to a height far...have ever heard or imagined of a pastoral existence. (Journal, 19 Sept. 1816; LJ, m, 355) In Greece and Asia Minor, he writes, there was too much of the... | |
| Geoffrey Wheatcroft - History - 2004 - 436 pages
...every summer: not in 1816 when Byron first visited the Alps, to find 'the music of the Cows' Bells ... in the pastures (which reach to a height far above...and the shepherds' shouting to us from crag to crag & playing on their reeds where the steeps appeared almost inaccessible, with the surrounding scenery... | |
| Geoffrey Wheatcroft - History - 2004 - 436 pages
...a height far above any mountains in Britain) and the shepherds' shouting to us from crag to crag & playing on their reeds where the steeps appeared almost inaccessible, with the surrounding scenery . . . pure and unmixed solitary - savage and patriarchal - the effect I cannot describe,' which was... | |
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