A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (page 1/3)

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Maria, detail - faces - two people in love

Actually he is in love with her, but I am not sure she shared the feelings. This is a detail from the Maria photogravure, sized for wide-screen computer desktops. [more...] [$]

The Stage Coach.

The stage coach, or more likely a carriage, is pulle by two horses, a driver sitting on the left-hand one. There are large wooden cart-wheels in the foreground; the carriage [...] [more...] [$]

The Conquest 2: Walking down the stairs

If nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece, must the whole web be rent in drawing them out? Whip me such stories, [...] thy Providence shall place me for the trials of my virtue, whatever is my danger, whatever is my situation, let me feel the movements which rise out of it, and which belong to me as a man—and, if I govern them as a good one, I will trust the issue to thy justice; for thou hast made us, and not we ourselves. [more...] [$]

Presented with the passport

the Count de B—— entered, with my passport in his hand. (p. 147) [more...] [$]

Franciscan Monk Going Down Staircase

The monk here has a habit with cowl, or hooded robe. The text makes clear hs is a Franciscan monk; at one time they went barefoot and lived in poverty, in the manner of their founder, but the book here implies [...] [more...] [$]