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In his life’s chronicle, the style of which was still beholden to the fashionable tone of his youthful days, that is, of erudite arabesque and florid ornamentation, the fat count depicted in sentences that, precisely due to their exemplary tortuousness, have since found their way into many a schoolbook, the leisurely ride through the green of the Vienna Woods: At Melk we reached the wide blue of the Danube, alighting there at the magnificent abbey to pillow our weary heads for the night.
In seinem Lebensbericht, dessen Stil noch dem Modeton seiner Jugendtage, das heißt der gelehrten Arabeske und der blumigen Ausschmückung, verpflichtet war, schilderte der dicke Graf in Sätzen, die gerade ihrer exemplarischen Gewundenheit wegen den Weg in manches Schullesebuch gefunden haben, den gemächlichen Ritt durchs Wienerwaldgrün: Bei Melk erreichten wir das breite Blau der Donau, im herrlichen Stift kehrten wir ein, um eine Nacht lang unsere müden Häupter auf Kissen zu betten.
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