The Quest of the Simple Life
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (640 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1508840199 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 158 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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But even Horace loved the olive-groves of Tivoli more than the far-ranged splendours of the Palatine; and I may be pardoned if an occasional vision of green fields often left my eye insensitive to metropolitan attractions.“This is a somewhat sonorous preface to the small matter of my story; but I am anxious to elaborate it a little, lest it should be imagined that I am merely a person of bucolic mind, to whom all cities or large congregations of my fellow-men are in themselves abhorrent. The truly admirable city secures interest, and even passionate love, not because it is a congeries of thriving factories, but rather by the dignity of its position, the splendour of its architecture, the variety and volume of its life, the imperial, literary, and artistic interests of which it is the centre, and the prolongation of its history through tumultuous periods of time, which fade into the suggestive shadows of antiquity. London answers perfectly to this definition of the truly admirable city. A reflective and profound account of a family’s escape from the city to the country--on very little income.“For a considerable number of years I had been a resident in London, which city I regarded alternately as my Paradise and my House of Bondage. It has been the sta
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