North Italian Folk: Sketches from Town and Country LifeChatto and Windus, 1878 - 282 páginas Traveling through Italy drawing pictures of people and places. |
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... better pleased , since it was a sin to work outright , but only a venial fault to keep one's shops open a little , and to forget about going to mass- of all those most comfortable saints and Virgins , how few , alas ! have they left us ...
... better pleased , since it was a sin to work outright , but only a venial fault to keep one's shops open a little , and to forget about going to mass- of all those most comfortable saints and Virgins , how few , alas ! have they left us ...
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... better pleased than not . The days of the dolce far niente are pretty well over , in the north of Italy , at all events , and every man must keep pace with his neighbours . So we let the old people grumble , the half of whose portion it ...
... better pleased than not . The days of the dolce far niente are pretty well over , in the north of Italy , at all events , and every man must keep pace with his neighbours . So we let the old people grumble , the half of whose portion it ...
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... better Carnivals , can call to mind . Holy Week , called la settimana grassa , is past . Lent moves forward apace with gloomy garments , with sack- cloth and ashes , and calls to prayer and penitence ! Come , let us make good use of ...
... better Carnivals , can call to mind . Holy Week , called la settimana grassa , is past . Lent moves forward apace with gloomy garments , with sack- cloth and ashes , and calls to prayer and penitence ! Come , let us make good use of ...
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... better last unshrivelled from Eastertide to Easter- tide again for sacred guards and memories . The market- place , always a wondrous scene of confusion and vocife- ration , is now more perturbed than ever . The palms are set up in ...
... better last unshrivelled from Eastertide to Easter- tide again for sacred guards and memories . The market- place , always a wondrous scene of confusion and vocife- ration , is now more perturbed than ever . The palms are set up in ...
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... better to display their cunningly - plaited hair and ornaments of finely - wrought gold . There are servant - girls who have not much gold to show , but whose tresses are even more prettily arranged and these smooth their black - silk ...
... better to display their cunningly - plaited hair and ornaments of finely - wrought gold . There are servant - girls who have not much gold to show , but whose tresses are even more prettily arranged and these smooth their black - silk ...
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North Italian Folk: Sketches of Town and Country Life Alice Vansittart Strettel Carr Visualização integral - 1910 |
North Italian Folk: Sketches from Town and Country Life Alice Vansittart Strettel Carr Visualização integral - 1878 |
North Italian Folk: Sketches from Town and Country Life Alice Vansittart Strettel Carr Visualização integral - 1878 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
ALFRED CONCANEN amid Apennines beautiful beneath beside Bianca blue Bogliasco bright Busalla camellias Camogli Caterina chestnut chestnut woods church climb cloth extra colour comes cottage creep Crown 8vo dark dress Edited face fair Fcap festa fish flowers Frà Giuseppe fruit gardens Genoa Genoese dialect Giovanni girls gold graceful green grey grow hair HENRY KINGSLEY hill Italian Italy JOHN SAUNders kerchief La Spezia lady land laughs look Lucrezia Maddalena Madonna maize marble marchese Marrina Maso meadows minestra morning mountains neighbours Nettina night OUIDA palaces palms Paolo parish peasant piazza Pietro polenta poor Portrait Prevosto priest Riviera road rough round Santa Margherita Savignone says scarcely side Signor Cappellano Signor Giordano soldi stand stone streets summer tall terrace things to-day town trees valley village swains vines Vols walk wall waves wear WILKIE COLLINS wind woman women yellow
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