Download or read book Holidays Abroad, Vol. 2 written by Mrs. Caroline Matilda Kirkland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Holidays Abroad, Vol. 2: Or Europe From the West This fact helps to bring home to the imagination the vast size of the edifice. But who shall tell of the magnificence of the whole - of the wealth of sculpture - the masses of mosaic, the incredible amount of rich marbles, which fill the eye on every side, without any 'cumbrousness or ex travagance or the least appearance of mere expense for expense's sake, observable in so many churches. A hun dred marble cherubs, each larger than a man, placed in pairs upon the pillars, are mere harmonious decorations. They pass unobserved until we begin to examine the church in detail. Those which support the vases for holy water on each side the church are often noticed. They are fine babies, and when you find by measurement that their heads are four times as large as your own, you are aided in drawing conclusions as to the size of the building which thus diminishes them. A glance across the marble pavement from the high altar to the door, gives an idea of only a moderate walk'; but when you see that a regiment of soldiers has entered without materially dimin ishing the apparent distance, you begin to remember that the church is 600 feet long. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.