ISBN: 9780548551547

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: .to the more private purposes of the family. Here we find all the domestic compartments which we usually divide over several floors. The ladies had their boudoirs and the gentlemen their libraries. There are, too, saloons of different degrees of elegance, and diningrooms, shady and very This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: .to the more private purposes of the family. Here we find all the domestic compartments which we usually divide over several floors. The ladies had their boudoirs and the gentlemen their libraries. There are, too, saloons of different degrees of elegance, and diningrooms, shady and very inviting in such a climate, looking out as they did upon mosaic-paved court-yards, cooled by fountains, and the murmuring of flowing waters. playing among marble statues and flower-beds, with gold fishes darting about in their artificial ponds. When space permitted, there was always a garden, shaded by vine-covered trellises supported on beautiful columns, under which the family assembled, perhaps to eat " ices"-at all events, to drink iced wine. Here, also, were the cold baths. These were taken in the open air, with a somewhat nonchalant disregard of exposure universal in warm countries. Some of the bath-tubs, of the purest white marble, are of magnificent proportions, and look as invitingly under the warm sky of to-day as when Grecian belles were wont to bathe their fair limbs therein. The hot baths were, from necessity, more retired. The farther end of the garden was frequently painted in fresco landscape, so that the passerby in the street beheld a beautiful perspective of Corinthian columns, fountains, statues, and mosaic-paved court-yards, terminating with flowers and shrubbery, and apparently betraying a vista far beyond the reality. The effect of such a scene, combined with the graceful-flowing robes of the ancients, and their careless out-door domesticity, generated by a climate which invites freedom, must have been charmingly picturesque. The chambers were in general mere closets, altogether too small for modern bedsteads, and lighted only by doors. In fac. Books, History~~United States~~General, Italian-Sights-and-Papal-Principles~~James-Jackson-Jarves, 999999999, Italian Sights And Papal Principles, Seen Through American Spectacles, James Jackson Jarves, 0548551545, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

ISBN: 0548551545

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: KESSINGER PUB CO, 380 Seiten, L=229mm, B=152mm, H=25mm, Gew.=726gr, [GR: 15590 - HC/Geschichte/Sonstiges], [SW: - History - U.S.… Meer...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: KESSINGER PUB CO, 380 Seiten, L=229mm, B=152mm, H=25mm, Gew.=726gr, [GR: 15590 - HC/Geschichte/Sonstiges], [SW: - History - U.S.], Gebunden<

2007, ISBN: 0548551545

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