. Viaggi in Italia / da W.D. Howells ; con centotré illustrazioni di Joseph Pennell.. M thatthey può essere riprodotto solo da disegni. Uno dei theis i feriti Adonis curati da Venere e gli amori in cui la storia è trattata con un pathos giocoso meravigliosamente affascinante. Il ragazzo giusto si appoggia nel languore di hishurt verso Venere, che siede completamente disconsolato assedilui, mentre i Cupids si sono occupati di uffici chirurgici come Cupids può rendere: Uno prepara il bendaggio alinen per la ferita, un altro lo avvolge la gamba di Adonis, un altro sostiene una delle sue braccia pesanti

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. Italian journeys / by W.D. Howells ; with one hundred and three illustrations by Joseph Pennell.. m thatthey can only be reproduced by drawings. One of theseis the wounded Adonis cared for by Venus and the Loves ;in which the story is treated with a playful pathos wonder-fully charming. The fair boy leans in the languor of hishurt toward Venus, who sits utterly disconsolate besidehim, while the Cupids busy themselves with such slightsurgical offices as Cupids may render: one prepares alinen bandage for the wound, another wraps it roundthe leg of Adonis, another supports one of his heavy arms, another finds his own emotions too much for him andpauses to weep. It is a pity that the colours of thisbeautiful fresco are grown so dim, and a greater pity thatmost of the other frescoes in Pompeii must share its fate, and fade away. The hues are vivid when the walls arefirst uncovered, and the ashes washed from the pictures, but then the malice of the elements begins anew, and rainand sun draw the life out of tints which the volcano failedto obliterate. Italian 3 o u c n c v 5 A Day inPompeii. A Tomb. Pompeii Among the frescoes which told no story but their own, we were most pleased with one in a delicately paintedlittle bed-chamber. This represented an alarmed andfurtive man, whom we at once pronounced The BelatedHusband, opening a door with a night-latch. Nothingcould have been better than this miserable wretchscowardly haste and cautious noiselessness in applying hiskey ; apprehension sat upon his brow, confusion dwelt inhis guilty eye. He had been out till two oclock in themorning1, electioneering for Pansa, the friend of thepeople ( Pansa, the Roman gladiators, Pansa, andChristians to the Beasts, was the platform), and he hadleft his placehs uxor at home alone with the children, andnow within this door that placens uxor awaited him ! You have read, no doubt, of their discovering, a year ortwo since, in making an excavation in a Pompeian street, the moulds of four human bod

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• bookcentury1900
• bookdecade1900
• booksubjectitalyde
• bookyear1901