Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida

by Marie Louise de la Ramée, Ouida, Sydney F Morris

Book Overview

One grows to love the Roman fountains as sea-born men the sea. Go where you will there is the water; whether it foams by Trevi, where the green moss grows in it like ocean weed about the feet of the ocean god, or whether it rushes reddened by the evening light, from the mouth of an old lion that once saw Cleopatra; whether it leaps high in air, trying to reach the gold cross on St. Peter's or pours its triple cascade over the Pauline granite; whether...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1515092313
• ISBN13: 9781515092315
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"