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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 12: (search)
, whose magnificence finally closes up the whole prospect. The road passes, I should think, about half-way between the summit and the base, and beginning from the southeastern point, where you first enter, extends round to beyond the village of Colares,—a distance of four or five miles,—cut like a kind of cornice in the side of the mountain, whose windings and indentations it follows, so that the prospect shifts and varies at every step you advance; now hiding you in some sunless little dell,antic, elegant seclusion of that Mr. Beckford whom Lord Byron has justly damned to eternal memory under the name of Vathek; From the story of that name, of which he was the author.—Childe Harold, Canto I. Stanza 22. to the Quinta da Penha, to Colares, and, finally, to the rock which forms the most western limit of the European continent, and where nature, by a glorious boundary, marks the termination of her works in the Old World. Besides this, too, we went, of course, to the Moorish forti<