Opis: The Burden of Isabel - Cobban J. Maclaren

Excerpt from The Burden of Isabel: A Novel

To the sthetically minded southern Lancashire is the most provoking and irritating region within the coasts of Great Britain. It constantly suggests that there might have been unrivalled opportunities for delight in the picturesque and the beautiful had they not been hewn away, trampled on, or covered up by the remorseless genius of modern Lancashire industry. Here, for instance, is a glen which Nature intended to be as romantic as any in the North, with birch-clothed sides, a clear and frolicsome trout-stream, and turf as soft and scented as the mead of Asphodel. Nature's intention, however, has been thwarted, and we have, instead, merely a convenient hollow and convenient water for dye-works: the sky-line is cut by a tall, smoking chimney, the upper end of the glen is blocked by a pile of building and a dirty dam, the birches are stunted and blighted by smoke and the gases of filthy chemicals, the stream is choked by ashes and other refuse, and is shrunk to an ashamed and noisome dribble, and the mead of Asphodel is turned into a broad cinder-track for mill-hands and coal-carts.

This is a common and saddening sight in southern Lancashire. Yet are there others where it is pleasant and cheering to see that under proper and kindly control the genius of modern industry may have room and verge enough without committing outrage of a wanton kind upon dear mother Nature. Not very far from the glen (or clough) already indicated there is another - or, was, a few years ago - where Nature had not been outraged, but only tamed a little.

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Szczegóły: The Burden of Isabel - Cobban J. Maclaren

Nazwa: The Burden of Isabel A Novel (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Cobban J. Maclaren
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330190272
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 342
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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