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CHAP. II - RUBELAND

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2010

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During the three hours of sleep allowed me, old remembrances and new impressions combined themselves into such a whimsically distinct mosaic, that the transcript of the same would possibly not be the dullest page of these journals. But, according to Dr. Watts, the telling of dreams is the sluggard's occupation, and in the Harz country at least few deserve that character. At five o'clock the inmates of the Brockenhaus were all shaken out of their heavy sleep, to be in time for the far-famed sunrise. One by one the spirits of the last night's orgie made their appearance, looking neither much dirtier nor more debauched for the carouse than they had done the previous evening, and alertly eager for the spectacle they had mounted to see. It was soon evident, however, that of this they were to be disappointed. The aspect of matters on issuing forth reminded me of a graphic expression in Mr. Monck Mason's account of the ascent of the great Nassau balloon, which he described as at midnight silently cleaving its way through black marble. No less dense and substantial seemed the dingy white fog in the heart of which the summit of the Brocken was imbedded and which only gave way a span's breath before us. Having blundered all round the Prospect Tower ere we came to the side of entrance, we mounted to the summit.

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Music and Manners in France and Germany
A Series of Travelling Sketches of Art and Society
, pp. 35 - 58
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009
First published in: 1841

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  • RUBELAND
  • Henry Fothergill Chorley
  • Book: Music and Manners in France and Germany
  • Online publication: 29 August 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511701849.002
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  • RUBELAND
  • Henry Fothergill Chorley
  • Book: Music and Manners in France and Germany
  • Online publication: 29 August 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511701849.002
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  • RUBELAND
  • Henry Fothergill Chorley
  • Book: Music and Manners in France and Germany
  • Online publication: 29 August 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511701849.002
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