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...simple country houses of Pliny and the somewhat more elaborate villas of Cicero would form a not unfitting background to the life of today. In the Italian villa we find brought into subjection the main ideas and features of its Roman predecessor. On the borders of Lake Como we find the best examples of these houses. Here the blue waters of the lake contrast strongly with the pure white country houses with which the lake is bordered. Art and nature seem to have combined to make a paradise. During the Renaissance the art of building was continually changing, largely owing...
...aureos momentos volan como abijas...
...Brighton Road for the Bois de Boulogne, and Papanti's for the Mabille. To be sure, it is a great thing to see the world, make the grand tour, etc.; but visiting picture-galleries and palaces, and dreaming under the combined influence of a cigar and the Lake of Como, are very poor preparations for mathematics and logic, relieved only by the milder diversions of a Cambridge winter; and the average student is apt to return with a much clearer conception of the works of Offenbach than of those of Michael Angelo, and of Monaco than of the Matterhorn...