Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · Boston, Roberts brothers · leaf 288
Pieuvre, but these criti-cisms can only be applicable when the building is seenfrom a little distance. From the Champ de Mars itpresents a most imposing appearance, especially on afine night. The site is incomparable. The whole widthof the building has a clear space before it for nearlyfifteen… … ^^ii Parks and Gardens. 191 another wide space of garden, and beyond that theChamp de Mars. When the sky is full of stars and allthis scene covered with lights like an illumination, it isenough to inspire a poet, and would in itself be in thehighest degree poetical if it were not so modern and…
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