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Seville, i. Seville, more than any city I have ever seen, is the city of pleasure. It is not languid with pleasure, like Venice, nor flushed with hurrying after pleasure, like Budapest; but it has the constant brightness, blitheness, and animation of a city in which pleasure is the chief end of existence, and an end easily attained, by simple means within every ones reach. It has sunshine, flowers, an expressive river, orangegroves, palm trees, broad walks leading straight into the country, beautiful, ancient buildings in its midst, shining white houses, patios and flat roofs and vast windows, everything that calls one into the open air, and brings light and air to one, and thus gives men the main part of their chances of natural felicity. And it has the theatres, cafes, shops, of a real city, it is not provincial, as Valencia is ;it is concentrated, and yet filled to the brim ;it has completely mastered its own resources. Life is everywhere ;there are no melancholy gaps, vacant spaces, in which a ruinous old age has its own way desolately, as in most really picturesque cities ;as in Venice, for instance, which it resembles in so many points. It has room for itself, and it is not too large for itself. And in living gaily, and in the present, it is carrying on a tradition :it is the city of Don Juan, the city ofF
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- ÉditeurNabu Press
- Date d'édition2010
- ISBN 10 1141854643
- ISBN 13 9781141854646
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages364
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