The Fruitful Vine (Classic Reprint)
| Preis: | 23.95 EUR* (inkl. MWST zzgl. Versand - Preis kann jetzt höher sein!) |
| Versand: | 0.00 EUR Versandkostenfrei innerhalb von Deutschland |
| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Hichens, Robert) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Fruitful Vine Rome lay in the embrace of golden afternoon, one of those clear afternoons of autumn which hold no foretaste of winter sadness, but which are mellow and soft, which suggest to the mind the glory of harvest, the merriment and opulence of the vintage, when the sons of men take from the earth her good gifts with joy and a careless thankfulness. The close rows of the ilexes in the Borghese Gardens threw their twilight upon the paths about the Piazza di Siena. The tall pine trees showed their round dark heads on the crest of the hill by the Porta Pinciaria, But in the Giardino del Lago, near the temple of Æsculapius, the red and golden leaves were falling along the edge of the opaque water, and the black figures of the students from the theological colleges, who hatint this quiet enclosure, coming and going among the trees, or bending motionless over their books of devotion in sheltered places, were relieved against a delicate wonder of color that touched them with romance. Upon the circular riding track that girdles the grassy open space where games are played by the students and ypuths of Rome, officers in uniform cantered by, sitting squarely on their horses. Workmen in soft hats, their jackets loosely tied by the sleeves round their brawny necks, went past smoking Toscanas, and talking loudly. Strangers, seeking the intimate spell of the Gracious City, dreamed on seats beneath the pines near the Vaccheria. Here and there a painter was reverently at work, helped perhaps by the murmur of water falling into the mossy basin of an antique fountain. Here and there a gay bicyclist spun by, and the purr of a motor car, breasting the hill from the Piazza del Popolo, struck a modern note in these Pagan gardens. And the light voices of children thrilled through the languorous air and rang out in the sunshine. For it was the childrens hour in the Villa Borghese. The stalwart nurses in their flowing ribbons, with immense gleaming pins, almost like daggers, stuck through their headdresses, walked proudly, carrying, or wheeling, their charges, the dark-eyed bimbi of Rome. 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.
* Preis kann jetzt höher sein. Den aktuellen Stand und Informationen zu den Versandkosten finden sie auf der Homepage unseres Partners.
Folgende Produkte könnten dir ebenso gefallen
