...unclosed before him, of which ere then he had never dreamed. where he lay at her feet, he looked upward to her through the ethereal light that floated round them, and seemed to sever them from earth. " I would die now, rather than live to wake from this!" The words broke unconsciously from him rather...

...paused in the midst of the still, violet, lake-like water. Where he lay at her feet, he looked upward to her through the ethereal light that floated round...sever them from earth. " Would to God I could die now ! " The words broke unconsciously from him rather in the instinct of the moment than in conscious utterance....

...paused in the midst of the still, violet, lakelike witer. Where he lay at her feet, he looked upward to her through the ethereal light that floated round...sever them from earth. " Would to God I could die now !" The words broke unconsciously from him rather in the instinct of the moment than in conscious utterance....

...However that may be, it was these afternoon hours which her heroine Idalia [of the eponymous novel, 1867] with her usual good taste, selected upon a memorable...of the last generation. "When I entered it," says [Ferdinand] Gregorovius [in Wanderjahre in Italien, 1853], somewhat more articulately, "I felt myself...

...this "temple not built of men". "Passion was stilled here; love was silenced; the chastened solenmity, the purity of its mysterious divinity, had no affinity...and seemed to sever them from earth.. ..Would to God 1 could die now!" This was the Blue Grotto of the last generation. "When I entered it," says [Ferdinand]...