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A Ramble Among the Musicians of Germany, by a Musical Professor [e. Holmes].
A Ramble Among the Musicians of Germany by a Musical Professor - e. Holmes Author:Edward Holmes General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1828 Subjects: History / Europe / Germany History / Military / World War II Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial acc... more »ess to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 36 FRANKFORT. Does any one wish to attain the summit of earthly bliss ? If so, let him travel in fine summer weather between Mayence and Frankfort, take his dinner in a pleasant chamber, overlooking that smiling country, with the welcome intrusion of green boughs at the window, and after emptying a flask of old Hockheimer, he will arrive at the blessed consummation. The merit of this discovery I must share with a certain German student, and we both flatter ourselves to have appreciated that ecstatic state described in the old ballad: " For what more can a man desire, Nor sitting by a sea-coal fire,"« less