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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... never so forget ; and I am fain now to set down some memory of those sun - lit scenes of the past , for friends whose lot has never been cast , as mine was , among them . My sketches will not always be portraits of living people or ...
... never so forget ; and I am fain now to set down some memory of those sun - lit scenes of the past , for friends whose lot has never been cast , as mine was , among them . My sketches will not always be portraits of living people or ...
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... never fail in their perfection , and still the people have no higher praise for the fairest blossoms of their glens and their gardens than the words , ' They are as good as false ones ! ' As the days wear on - Thursday , Friday ...
... never fail in their perfection , and still the people have no higher praise for the fairest blossoms of their glens and their gardens than the words , ' They are as good as false ones ! ' As the days wear on - Thursday , Friday ...
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... - ished by sturdy peasant nurses , according to the country's cus- tom ; yet a mother's care has never been theirs , nor have fresh field bree- zes ever fanned their cheeks , and strengthened THE SERVANT WENCH . LA FANTESCA .
... - ished by sturdy peasant nurses , according to the country's cus- tom ; yet a mother's care has never been theirs , nor have fresh field bree- zes ever fanned their cheeks , and strengthened THE SERVANT WENCH . LA FANTESCA .
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... never afraid to jest with their social inferiors . ' Pretty , ' ejaculates she , admiringly , as the tall young man crushes and drapes a citron - coloured gauze the better for the sunlight to catch and beautify it ! But with that stuff ...
... never afraid to jest with their social inferiors . ' Pretty , ' ejaculates she , admiringly , as the tall young man crushes and drapes a citron - coloured gauze the better for the sunlight to catch and beautify it ! But with that stuff ...
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... never shall I obtain it from my husband ! Pity , ' adds she , rising gracefully , and replacing the high stool in its place , for the colour suits me to perfection , and the stuff pleases me ; this satin stripe is new , and looks well ...
... never shall I obtain it from my husband ! Pity , ' adds she , rising gracefully , and replacing the high stool in its place , for the colour suits me to perfection , and the stuff pleases me ; this satin stripe is new , and looks well ...
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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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