Identifier: paladinsaracenst00ariorich (find matches)
Title: Paladin & Saracen; stories from Ariosto
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Ariosto, Lodovico Hollway-Calthrop, Henry Calthrop
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Publisher: London, Macmillan and co.
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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he gulls and jackdaws flew screaming down to snatch at them and pull them to pieces with their beaks and claws,so that nearly all the papers were quickly torn into shreds,and their fragments scattered to the winds. But a fewwere saved from destruction by the beautiful swans, whotook them up reverently in their beaks and carried themto the shelter of a neighbouring temple. Astulf was eagerto know the meaning of so strange a sight; for he said : Many a time have I seen birds fight for a crumb of breador a morsel of meat, but what can induce them to struggleso over strips of useless paper? And Virgil answered him, and said : You must know, Sir Duke, that everythingwhich happens on earth has its counterpart here in themoon; and the papers which you see represent the namesof the men who die there below, which are taken away bythe old man Time to be cast into the river Oblivion. Thegulls and jackdaws answer to the crowds of ignorant andmalicious men who help Time to destroy the reputations of
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BY THE RIVER OBLIVION.—P. I70. CHAP. VI.) A VALLEY IN THE MOON. 171 the dead; but the swans are the poets and historians who rescue the worthiest names from Oblivion, and lay them reverently in the temple of Immortality. The swans, in truth, are very few in number compared with the countless swarm of gulls and jackdaws, but they are enough for the work they have to do, seeing that only a very few names are worthy to be saved from the general destruction. Now when they had looked on for a while at this notable sight they left the river Oblivion and proceeded to the valley of Lost Lumber, where the object of their errand was to be found. It was a long though narrow valley shut in between two lofty mountain ridges, and in it were stored away all the things which men lose or waste on earth.Here they found an infinite number of lovers sighs, beyondwhich lay the useless moments lost at the gaming-tables,and the long wasted leisure of ignorant and idle men.Next came the vain desires and foolish wishes

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