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Updated: June 19, 2025
You are flying back to the dolce far niente, to friends few, but intimate; to life monotonous, but unrestrained; and even there the sense of loneliness will again seize upon you; and you do not seek, as I do, the annihilation of memory, your dead passions are turned to ghosts that haunt you, and unfit you for the living world.
The walls and vaulted roofs entirely painted in encaustic by the first artists of Germany, and representing the principal events of the second Testament, the splendour of the mosaic pavement, the richness of the painted windows, the sumptuousness of the altar, crowned by a masterpiece of Carlo Dolce and surrounded by a silver rail, the tone of rich and solemn light that pervaded all, and blended all the various sources of beauty into one absorbing and harmonious whole: all combined to produce an effect which stilled them into a silence that lasted for some minutes, until the ladies breathed their feelings in an almost inarticulate murmur of reverence and admiration; while a tear stole to the eye of the enthusiastic Henry Sydney.
There is no pasturage near, and they never go out, but are constantly lying down, and surfeiting themselves with vine-leaves perfect Italian cows enjoying the dolce far' niente all day long.
My episodical remarks are for the benefit of young Dolce Pianissimo, who has taken, I am sorry to say, to gin, shirt-collars prodigious, and the minor magazines, and whose friends are standing aghast and despairing at his lunacy.
No, no, Julia, when you look on the Carlo Dolce and the Guido, you will forget not only the toils of the husband, but that you have one at all. You will forget my harsh features in the contemplation of softer ones." "Your features are not harsh ones, Edward." "Nay, you shall not persuade me that I am not an Orson a very wild man of the woods. I know I am.
She retreated a few steps from the sea, followed closely by the eager boy. "We sha'n't disturb them now," she said, stopping. "Do you know why I've brought you these?" She stretched out her hands, with the dolce and the cigarettes. The boy threw his chin up again and half shut his eyes. "No, Signorina." "Because you did what I told you." She spoke rather with the air of a little queen.
In the meantime the Honourable Elisha Jane, spurred on by desperation and thoughts of a 'dolce far niente' gone forever; has sought and cornered Mr. Bascom. "For God's sake, Brush," cries the Honourable Elisha, "hasn't this thing gone far enough?
While I write to you, Walter lights his cigar and gives himself up to day dreams, and I shall soon say au revoir and devote myself to the same delightful, if unprofitable, occupation, as this fairy lake is the place of all others in which to dream and lead the dolce far niente life of Italy. And so we float about in boats, as at Venice, and think not of the morrow.
If Carlo Dolce had been wicked enough to know what he was doing, the picture would have been most blasphemous, a satire, in the very person of the Almighty, against all incompetent rulers, and against the rickety machine and crazy action of the universe. Heaven forgive me for such thoughts as this picture has suggested!
Continually enveloped in an atmosphere of whim, my friend appeared to live only for the severities of society; and not even his own household have for a moment associated other ideas than those of the rigid and august with the memory of the Baron Ritzner von Jung, the demon of the dolce far niente lay like an incubus upon the university.
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