Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873But Newport is no longer...
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873

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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873

$19.99 $9.99
Author: Various
Format: eBook
Language: English

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873

But Newport is no longer the ocean pure and deep, in the rich severity of its sangre azul. We want to admire the waves, and they drag us off to inspect the last new villa: we like the beach, and they bid us enjoy the gardens, brought every spring in lace-paper out of the florist's shop. We like to stroll on the shore, [pg 610] barefooted if we choose, and Newport is become an affair of toilette and gold-mounted harness, a bathing-place where people do everything but bathe. In truth, under that moral and physical dyspepsia to which we bring ourselves regularly every summer, the fine crags of the north become just the least bit of a bore. They necessitate an amount of heroic climbing under the command of a sort of romantic and do-nothing Girls of the Period, who sit about on soft shawls in the lee of the rocks, and gather their shells and anemones vicariously at the expense of your tendon achilles. We know it, for we have suffered. We calculate, and are prepared to prove, that the successful collection of a single ribbon of ruffled seaweed, procured in a slimy haystack of red dulse at the beck of one inconsiderate girl, who is keeping her brass heels dry on a safe and sunny ledge of the Purgatory at Newport, may require more mental calculation, involve more anguish of equilibrium, and encourage more heartfelt secret profanity than the making of a steam-engine or the writing of a proposal. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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