Valhalla near Ratisbon, by Edward Theodore Compton, 1912

Valhalla near Ratisbon. Painted by Edward Theodore Compton, 1912
Identifier: germanypainted00dick (find matches)
Title: Germany;
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Dickie, James F., 1848- Compton, Edward Theodore, ill Compton, E. Harrison (Edward Harrison), ill
Subjects: Germany -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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carved work leadyou captive. You are in a mediseval city. Youfeel the atmosphere of bygone times, of ages passedaway. The watch in your vest-pocket connectsyou with Nuremberg. The toys of your childhoodmade you first acquainted with the citys name.Here you are in her streets, realising the dreamsyou have dreamed, and satisfying the yearningsyou have had to see that place of which it was said : Nurembergs hand Goes through every land. You saunter out at your own sweet will, andwherever your eye looks you discover some newattraction. Here are great store-houses, with fourstories of attics in the long sloping roof, whereinwere treasured up the rich wares that were broughtfrom far - off Oriental lands. Here are old innsready to welcome you as they gave welcome towayfarers centuries ago. Here is that great andhigh square Nassau house with its fair gallery,where gallants and ladies looked down generationsago. What tales these walls could tell! VALHALLA, NEAR RATLSBONOverlookinsf the Danube.
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BAVARIA 81 Suddenly you stumble upon the monument toHans Sachs, and a few paces distant you see thehouse where he made shoes and wrote his comediesand songs. You are fascinated with the doggerelover the doorway, which reads thus : Hans Sachs was a shoe-Maker and a poet too. Near by you are amused at the figure of the bag-piper, that speaks of the strange music which gavepleasure to Nurembergers as it does to the Scot.Then you stand before the St. Lorenz Church,the glory of Nuremberg. Its slender and gracefultowers, its finely sculptured portal, its great rosewindow, its magnificent interior and all its treasuresafford you unbounded delight. It is resplendentwith all the ornamentation the art of the architectcan devise. Then its great rival, St. Sebalds Church, alluresyou. That famous sepulchral monument, which isthe triumph of Peter Vischers art and whichenshrines the Saint, is glory enough for any earthlyedifice. As you see St. Sebald surrounded by thetwelve apostles in bronze you ar