The Duke S Prize

Reproduction of the original: The Duke's Prize by Maturin Murray Ballou

"The Duke's Prize" by Maturin M. Ballou is an inspiring story set in Italy. The narratives convey a variety of moral messages. Patience and consistency can result in great accomplishment; not all falls are intended to create roadblocks. The story beautifully instills the desire to conquer all. Love and dedication will always pay off.

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

"A Story of Art and Heart in Florence." "The reader will find herein, that love raises the humblest; and that true merit, like true genius, tramples upon misfortunes; and that 'some falls are means the happier to rise.'"

Loan thy genuine hearing to what I will unfurl. - Hamlet. Accompany me, delicate peruser, on the wings of extravagant into the gentle and friendly scope of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The brilliant area of the Mediterranean has been the writer's prepared subject for a long time; at that point let us thitherward, with high expectations (and acknowledging eyes) to appreciate the storied landscape of its shores. Contact, maybe, at Gibraltar; perceive how the tide courses through the straits! We go in with a streaming sail, and now we are at Corsica, Napoleon's home. Give us a chance to stop at Sardinia, with its abundance of tropical natural products; and we will even down to Sicily,-- for this copy sea overflows with subjects to enchant the eye even of the most easygoing spectator, with its glorious limit of Alps and Apennines, and the velvet floor covering of its sentimental shores, while its wide bosom is spotted with the sails of the beautiful art whose apparatus is curious to these oceans. It merited the adventure we have taken if just to see the inquisitive sea scene before we presently made up of the felucca, the polacre and the besiege or ketch all similarly obscure in our very own waters.