Oldport Days
The book Oldport Days was written by author Here you can read free online of Oldport Days book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Oldport Days a good or bad book?
Where can I read Oldport Days for free?
In our eReader you can find the full English version of the book. Read Oldport Days Online - link to read the book on full screen. Our eReader also allows you to upload and read Pdf, Txt, ePub and fb2 books. In the Mini eReder on the page below you can quickly view all pages of the book - Read Book Oldport Days
In our eReader you can find the full English version of the book. Read Oldport Days Online - link to read the book on full screen. Our eReader also allows you to upload and read Pdf, Txt, ePub and fb2 books. In the Mini eReder on the page below you can quickly view all pages of the book - Read Book Oldport Days
What reading level is Oldport Days book?
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
and what was allthe regal beauty of the past to him? He found every room adorned whenshe was in it, empty when she had gone, --save that the trace of her wasstill left on everything, and all appeared but as a garment she hadworn. It seemed that even her great mirror must retain, film over film, each reflection of her least movement, the turning of her head, theungloving of her hand. Strange! that, with all this intoxicatingpresence, she yet led a life so free from self, so simple, so absorbed, ...that all trace of consciousness was excluded, and she was as free fromvanity as her own child.
As we were once thus employed in the studio, I asked Kenmure, abruptly, if he never shrank from the publicity he was thus giving Laura. "MadameRecamier was not quite pleased, " I said, "that Canova had modelled herbust, even from imagination. Do you never shrink from permittingirreverent eyes to look on Laura's beauty? Think of men as you knowthem. Would you give each of them her miniature, perhaps to go withthem into scenes of riot and shame?" "Would to Heaven I could!" said he, passionately.
What to read after Oldport Days?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Higginson Thomas Wentworth to read onlineMoreLess
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
and what was allthe regal beauty of the past to him? He found every room adorned whenshe was in it, empty when she had gone, --save that the trace of her wasstill left on everything, and all appeared but as a garment she hadworn. It seemed that even her great mirror must retain, film over film, each reflection of her least movement, the turning of her head, theungloving of her hand. Strange! that, with all this intoxicatingpresence, she yet led a life so free from self, so simple, so absorbed, ...that all trace of consciousness was excluded, and she was as free fromvanity as her own child.
As we were once thus employed in the studio, I asked Kenmure, abruptly, if he never shrank from the publicity he was thus giving Laura. "MadameRecamier was not quite pleased, " I said, "that Canova had modelled herbust, even from imagination. Do you never shrink from permittingirreverent eyes to look on Laura's beauty? Think of men as you knowthem. Would you give each of them her miniature, perhaps to go withthem into scenes of riot and shame?" "Would to Heaven I could!" said he, passionately.
What to read after Oldport Days?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Higginson Thomas Wentworth to read onlineMoreLess
Write Review:
Guest
Read Also
8 / 10
User Reviews: