Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series

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John Addington Symonds. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series

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WINTER NIGHTS AT DAVOS

BACCHUS IN GRAUBÜNDEN

OLD TOWNS OF PROVENCE

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THE CORNICE

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AJACCIO

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MONTE GENEROSO

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LOMBARD VIGNETTES

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COMO AND IL MEDEGHINO

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BERGAMO AND BARTOLOMMEO COLLEONI

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CREMA AND THE CRUCIFIX

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CHERUBINO AT THE SCALA THEATRE

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A VENETIAN MEDLEY

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THE GONDOLIER'S WEDDING

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A CINQUE CENTO BRUTUS

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TWO DRAMATISTS OF THE LAST CENTURY

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John Addington Symonds

Published by Good Press, 2019

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It is too late to think of bed. 'The quincunx of heaven,' as Sir Thomas Browne phrased it on a dissimilar occasion, 'runs low. … The huntsmen are up in America; and not in America only, for the huntsmen, if there are any this night in Graubünden, have long been out upon the snow, and the stable-lads are dragging the sledges from their sheds to carry down the mails to Landquart. We meet the porters from the various hotels, bringing letter-bags and luggage to the post. It is time to turn in and take a cup of black coffee against the rising sun.

Some nights, even in Davos, are spent, even by an invalid, in bed. A leaflet, therefore, of 'Sleep-chasings' may not inappropriately be flung, as envoy to so many wanderings on foot and sledge upon the winter snows.

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