softly-scooped

Updated: May 10, 2025

What a tranquil, contented life it seemed, with romantic beauty as a part of its daily texture! the sunny terrace, with its tangled <i>podere</i> beneath it; the bright grey olives against the bright blue sky; the long, serene, horizontal lines of other villas, flanked by their upward cypresses, disposed upon the neighbouring hills; the richest little city in the world in a softly-scooped hollow at one's feet, and beyond it the most appealing of views, the most majestic, yet the most familiar.

Henry James - Italian Hours