Arthur Young's Travels in France: During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789George Bell and Sons, 1906 - 366 pages |
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Page xi
... beautiful picture of pastoral happiness , which if imaginary in old Roman days , is so often realized in the rural France of our own . Next Arthur Young visits the Landes on his way to Bordeaux . Here extraordinary changes have taken ...
... beautiful picture of pastoral happiness , which if imaginary in old Roman days , is so often realized in the rural France of our own . Next Arthur Young visits the Landes on his way to Bordeaux . Here extraordinary changes have taken ...
Page xx
... beautiful and richly - dowered orphan - alike the darling and the prey of one jealous foster - parent after another - the ill - fated country seems doomed to perpetual disenchantment and betrayal ; her affec- tions no sooner firmly ...
... beautiful and richly - dowered orphan - alike the darling and the prey of one jealous foster - parent after another - the ill - fated country seems doomed to perpetual disenchantment and betrayal ; her affec- tions no sooner firmly ...
Page xxiv
... beautiful valley of the Cousin , and of the abbey church of Vézelay , unique in splendour and of unique renown . Here , too , he was on the threshold of the little Celtic kingdom of the Morvan , where village communism , as existing ...
... beautiful valley of the Cousin , and of the abbey church of Vézelay , unique in splendour and of unique renown . Here , too , he was on the threshold of the little Celtic kingdom of the Morvan , where village communism , as existing ...
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... beautiful . " On quitting Lavenham , his destiny remained for a moment undecided . His father wished him to be sent to Eton , and thence to one of the Universities . His mother opposed the scheme , and he was apprenticed , with a ...
... beautiful . " On quitting Lavenham , his destiny remained for a moment undecided . His father wished him to be sent to Eton , and thence to one of the Universities . His mother opposed the scheme , and he was apprenticed , with a ...
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... lived in the country ; and the first ride I take in that kingdom shews me a score of country seats . The road excellent . Boulogne is not an ugly town ; and from the ramparts of the upper part the view is beautiful , though JOURNAL. ...
... lived in the country ; and the first ride I take in that kingdom shews me a score of country seats . The road excellent . Boulogne is not an ugly town ; and from the ramparts of the upper part the view is beautiful , though JOURNAL. ...
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