Sketches on the Old Road Through France to Florence (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Sketches on the Old Road Through France to Florence Among all the names of English wild flowers there is none prettier than Traveller´s Joy I do not know why the wild little clematis should have been called so, or who were the poets and humourists that invented the names of our flowers - names like Heartsease, Shepherd´s Purse, Love in a Mist, or Blowsy Bess. Such names seem to belong naturally to the kind of England that Chaucer knew, and nowadays they are in danger of being used with a certain conscious and deliberate simplicity, like a revived Maypole in Islington. But Traveller´s Joy we may perhaps retain in common use without affectation - all the more because, when summer goes, it loses its childlike prettiness and develops into Old Man´s Beard. Some kinds of traveller´s joy are common to every journey. To all except very distinguished people, there is a sense of escape, a loosening of habit´s fetters, and a pleasing loss of identity. There is always the hope that the people and things we may meet will be more agreeable than the people and things we are accustomed to. There is the still more glorious hope that the traveller himself may become more agreeable also. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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