{"product_id":"2940013306745","title":"Bracebridge Hall (Illustrated)","description":"Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original edition for your reading pleasure.It is also \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003esearchable and contains hyper-links to chapters. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndeed, it is difficult to describe the whimsical medley of ideas that throng upon the author's mind upon landing among English scenes. He for the first time sees a world about which he has been reading and thinking in every stage of his existence. The recollected ideas of infancy, youth, and manhood, of the nursery, the school, and the study, come swarming at once upon him; and his attention is distracted between great and little objects, each of which, perhaps, awakens an equally delightful train of remembrances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut what more especially attracted his notice, was those peculiarities which distinguish an old country and an old state of society from a new one. He probably never yet grown familiar enough with the crumbling monuments of past ages, to blunt the intense interest with which he at first beheld them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccustomed always to scenes where history was, in a manner, anticipation; where everything in art was new and progressive, and pointed to the future rather than to the past; where, in short, the works of man gave no ideas but those of young existence and prospective improvement; there must have been something inexpressibly touching in the sight of enormous piles of architecture, gray with antiquity, and sinking to decay. He most likely could not describe the mute but deep-felt enthusiasm with which he most likely contemplated as a vast monastic ruin, like Tintern Abbey, buried in the bosom of a quiet valley, and shut up from the world, as though it had existed merely for itself; or a warrior pile, like Conway Castle, standing in stern loneliness on its rocky height, a mere hollow yet threatening phantom of departed power. They spread a grand, and melancholy, an unusual charm over the landscape; he, for the first time beheld signs of national old age, and empire's decay, and proofs of the transient and perishing glories of art, amidst the ever-springing and reviving fertility of nature.","brand":"Leila's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069903126768,"sku":"2940013306745","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013306745_p0.jpg?v=1763579495","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013306745","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}