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2. House of Pleasure of the Kings of Kashmir |
F.
Bernier 4. Impetuous
fountain
Here again we have a fountain that bubbles up,
carrying sand with it, then becoming still, then starting up again,
intermittently.
Lowes argues that the "picture of the floating
image of the dome upon the wave" was brought to mind by the "darting play of
associations." Why?
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Text
Thence I went to find out a fountain, which hath something that's
rare
enough in it; bubbling up gently, and rising with some little impetuousity,
and making small bubbles of air, and carrying with it, to the top, some
small sand that is very fine, which goeth away again as it came, the water
becoming still, a moment after it, without ebullition, and, without bringing
up sand; and soon after beginning afresh as before, and so continuing its
motion by intervals, which are not regular. VIII, 234. |
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