The Englishman in Paris, 第 2 卷

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1819
 

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第 36 頁 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with.
第 75 頁 - Royal has grown to be what it is,, out of these habits and dispositions, and now presents the most characteristic feature of Paris: — it is dissolute, gay, wretched, elegant, paltry, busy, and idle: — it suggests recollections of atrocity, and supplies sights of fascination : — it displays virtue and vice living on easy terms, and in immediate neighbourhood with each other.
第 82 頁 - The first mentioned (the Cafes) are in fact brilliant temples of luxury : — on entering them for the first time, one is almost struck back by their glare of decoration and enjoyment. Ladies and gentlemen in their colours, and statues in their whiteness, — and busy waiters, and painted walls, and sparkling delicacies of every kind, are mingled, and repeated, and extended in appearance to infinity, by numerous mirrors, which add vast* ness to elegance, and the effect of a crowd to the experience...
第 68 頁 - I am to touch on these subjects. It is a square enclosure, formed of the buildings of the Orleans Palace ; — piazzas make a covered walk along three of its sides, and the centre is an open gravelled space, with a few straight lines of slim trees running along its length. There is a neat compact elegance visible in the architecture of what was the palace, - — but the building is now insignificant compared with its purposes, and...
第 34 頁 - The life of all mortals in kissing should pass Lip to lip while we're young— then the lip to the glass, fa, la, etc.
第 76 頁 - Royal are thus formed, and it puts on its air of bustling dissipation, and lounging sensuality, at an early hour of the morning. The chairs that- are placed out under the trees, are to be hired, with a newspaper, for a couple of sous a piece : — they are soon occupied : — the crowd of sitters and...
第 76 頁 - Excitements, indulgences, and privations, — art and vulgarity, — science and ignorance, — artful conspiracies, and careless debaucheries, — all mingle here, forming an atmosphere of various exhalations, a whirl of the most lively images, a stimulating melange of what is most heating, intoxicating, and subduing.
第 31 頁 - The high afpirings of his boundlefs foul, Aims at more merits than of mere finance— * Learn, friend, that P-tty praSifes to dance ; • Unites at once activity and wit ; Both heel and head ; both Parfit and Pin.
第 75 頁 - ... their necessities : — they must sleep there, and the tradesmen must transact their business there; a bed, a table, and a few chairs are therefore wanted, and a small room or two, uncarpeted and bare, must be hired. I speak, of course, of the middle and inferior classes. But all that is inspiring and comfortable, they seek out of doors, — and all that they pride themselves in being able to procure, is in the shape of decoration and amusement. The Palais Royal has grown to be what it is,, out...
第 81 頁 - ... downright gormandizing. The appearance of ladies sitting among crowds of men in these public r.ooms, startles the English visitor, as a custom that trenches on the seclusion that he is inclined to think necessary to the preservation of the most valuable female qualities, in the tenderness of their beauty. It is, however, in this respect as in many others in Paris ; — there is no sensibility for any thing beyond the action itself, — there is an utter ignorance that the highest sense of value...

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