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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... telling some little story of the past . Yet , perhaps , most of all , Genoa's gardens recall the best of Genoa's life , because they are the most bound up with her holiday life — with her Saints and fasts and feast days - for the ...
... telling some little story of the past . Yet , perhaps , most of all , Genoa's gardens recall the best of Genoa's life , because they are the most bound up with her holiday life — with her Saints and fasts and feast days - for the ...
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... tell a story about Italian festas , he finds that the throng which used to be so goodly has grown small indeed , and that , if he must needs be faithful to the present , his choice is very limited , and the colours on his palate must ...
... tell a story about Italian festas , he finds that the throng which used to be so goodly has grown small indeed , and that , if he must needs be faithful to the present , his choice is very limited , and the colours on his palate must ...
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... tell them all apart by their liveries : just as there were no gas lanterns but only oil lamps in the public thorough- fares . Even now the shops that have real plate - glass windows are few enough , and those that have them so broad and ...
... tell them all apart by their liveries : just as there were no gas lanterns but only oil lamps in the public thorough- fares . Even now the shops that have real plate - glass windows are few enough , and those that have them so broad and ...
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... tell you - only part of the day's work . The Contessa walks leisurely from Soziglia down the Via de ' Orefici , and goes into a jeweller's shop in this jewellers ' street , where , over lumps of pale pink coral and finely - wrought ...
... tell you - only part of the day's work . The Contessa walks leisurely from Soziglia down the Via de ' Orefici , and goes into a jeweller's shop in this jewellers ' street , where , over lumps of pale pink coral and finely - wrought ...
Página 74
... telling of the grey hairs that lie underneath , if only you lift the well - greased black ones , and of how that old husband of hers refused to spend his money to take her to the opera . ' And with reason , ' says Marrina for comment ...
... telling of the grey hairs that lie underneath , if only you lift the well - greased black ones , and of how that old husband of hers refused to spend his money to take her to the opera . ' And with reason , ' says Marrina for comment ...
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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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