The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

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Palatine Hill; had seen the glories of Paris, and felt the
enthralling influence of Rome and London; had visited
picture galleries and cathedrals, castles and abbeys, ruins
and historic localities to satiety; had listened to Dean
Stanley in Westminster Abbey, and Canon Farrar in St.
Margaret's Church, had stood by the graves of Wordsworth and Coleridge, and attended divine service in the
thousand-year-old church adjoining the cemetery where
they sleep; had bought curios of decorated and tinted
glass from the bazars of the Piazza San Marco in Venice,
mosaics from the shops of Florence, corals from Naples,
and pictures from Rome. It was time to set our faces
homeward.
Later, when the itinerant blood in our veins rose to
fever heat, and was not cooled by a trip to the Pacific
Coast, Southern California, Florida, and through the South,
we sailed once more across the sea. Then we saw Switzerland and the Tyrol, as we had not before, traveled through
Germany and Austria, sailed down the castled and storied
Rhie, reveled in the wild grandeur and picturesque beauty
of the Black Forest, and rested for a month in the beautiful
Mother Land, dear to the American heart.