Cities and Sea-Coasts and Islands (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Symons, Arthur

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ISBN 10: 1331575184 ISBN 13: 9781331575184

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Seville, more than any city I have ever seen, is the city Of pleasure. It is not languid with pleasure, like Venice, nor flushed with hurrying after pleasure, like Budapest; but it has the constant brightness, blitheness, and animation of a city in which pleasure is the chief end of existence, and an end easily attained, by simple means within every one's reach. It has sunshine, flowers, an expressive river, orange groves, palm trees, broad walks leading straight into the country, beautiful, ancient buildings in its midst, Shining white houses, patios and flat roofs and vast windows, everything that calls one into the open air, and brings light and air to one, and thus gives men the main part of their chances of natural felicity. And it has the theatres, cafés, shops, of a real city, it is not provincial, as Valencia is; it is concentrated, and yet filled to the brim; it has completely mastered its own resources. Life is everywhere; there are no melancholy gaps, vacant spaces, in which a ruinous old age has its own way desolately, as in most really picturesque cities; as in Venice, for instance, which it resembles in so many points. It has room for itself, and it is not too large for itself. And in living gaily, and in the present, it is carrying on a tradition: it is the city of Don Juan, the city of Figaro.

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Symons was a pivotal figure in British literature of the 1890s

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1331575184
• ISBN 13: 9781331575184
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 364