Splendid fertility, rich woods and dazzling waters, seclusion and confinement of view contrasted with sea-like extent of plain fading into the sky; and this again, in an opposite quarter, with an horizon of the loftiest and boldest Alps--unite in composing a prospect more diversified by magnificence, beauty, and sublimity, than perhaps any other point in Europe, of so inconsiderable an elevation, commands.
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_Foot-note on lines_ 31-36.
'He, too, of battle martyrs chief! Who, to recall his daunted peers, For victory shaped an open space, By gathering with a wide embrace, Into his single breast, a sheaf Of fatal Austrian spears.' Arnold Winkelried, at the battle of Sampach, broke an Austrian phalanx in this manner.
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_'The Last Supper' of Leonardo da Vinci_.

[xxvi.] 'Though searching damps and many an envious flaw Have marred this Work.' This picture of the Last Supper has not only been grievously injured by time, but the greatest part of it, if not the whole, is said to have been retouched, or painted over again.

These niceties may be left to connoisseurs,--I speak of it as I felt.