Excerpt from Around a Spring: Translated From the French of Gustave Droz Spite oi the delay, I wish to make one remark he1e. Let those who ate in a huny glide over it rapidly. Phoebus is not merely the handsome, pom pous youth, curled ci la Louis XIV., blessing the world from his gilded chariot, and whirling through space as fast as his four coursers can carry him. He likes to peep through the vine branches and pry into iittle corners without caring for decorum, or thinking ot'his plumes, visit poor people, and thrust his ...
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Excerpt from Around a Spring: Translated From the French of Gustave Droz Spite oi the delay, I wish to make one remark he1e. Let those who ate in a huny glide over it rapidly. Phoebus is not merely the handsome, pom pous youth, curled ci la Louis XIV., blessing the world from his gilded chariot, and whirling through space as fast as his four coursers can carry him. He likes to peep through the vine branches and pry into iittle corners without caring for decorum, or thinking ot'his plumes, visit poor people, and thrust his laugh ing face into attics. If a place pleases him, he forgets his astronomy, and without the least ceremony in terests himself in botany, and plays with the children. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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