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Excerpt from History of Charles the Bold, Vol. 3: Duke of Burgundy
When the spectators on the Rigi have watched successive groups of giant Alps rise out of the night, and receive on their icy brows warm kisses from the radiant dawn, the eye turns in quest of further mar vels to the Opposite quarter of the panorama, across table-lands and plains dotted with towns and lakes, and bounded by the distant chain of the Jura. But there the horizon ofi'ers none of the grand and eu trancing aspects of a mountain range. That long, straight, dusky line, with no variety of form or play of color, belongs not to the picture, but to the frame.
If we transfer our point of View to the Lake of vol. III. 1 (1) Geneva, and choose for our comparison the evening instead of the morning light, the contrast is still more striking. For then the mountains of the Valais and Of Savoy unveil themselves to the declining sun, and, as the mist rolls off, each snowy summit and gray pyramid ?ushes into soft crimson before his parting glance. The lake, like a conscious witness, trembles and burns. But J ura, wrapping herself in a darker mantle, interposes to cut short the glowing scene. The lingering orb is snatched away. The matchless mirror ceases to re?ect. Pallid, yet serene, the ma jestic Alps recede into the gloom.
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