A Little Tour In France - Henry James - Libros -  - 9798677476310 - 7 de octubre de 2020
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A Little Tour In France

Book Excerpt: ...cturesque, a reflection of the splen- dor still glitters in the current of the Loire. Some of the most striking events of French history have occurred on the banks of that river, and the soil it waters bloomed for a while with the flowering of the Renais- sance. The Loire gives a great "style" to a landscape of which the features are not, as the phrase is, promi- nent, and carries the eye to distances even more poetic than the green horizons of Touraine. It is a very fit- ful stream, and is sometimes observed to run thin and expose all the crudities of its channel, - a great defect certainly in a river which is so much depended upon to give an air to the places it waters. But I speak of it as I saw it last; full, tranquil, powerful, bending in large slow curves, and sending back half the light of the sky. Nothing can be finer than the view of its course which you get from the battlements and ter- races of Amboise. As I looked down on it from that elevation one lovely Sunday morning, through a mild glitter of...

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Publicado 7 de octubre de 2020
ISBN13 9798677476310
Páginas 150
Dimensiones 152 × 229 × 9 mm   ·   226 g
Lengua Inglés  

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