tuscanism

Updated: June 11, 2025

Civilised, charmingly civilised, were my loquacious neighbours as how had n't they to be, one asked one's self, through the use of a medium of speech that is in itself a sovereign saturation? <i>There</i> was the beautiful congruity of the happily-caught impression; the fact of my young men's general Tuscanism of tongue, which related them so on the spot to the whole historic consensus of things.

Henry James - Italian Hours