Letters From Italy and Vienna (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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It was not for the first time that I renewed acquaintance with the light-hearted and light heeled Viennese. Nous sommes legers, voila tout! Was Madame de Stael's concession and defence in behalf of her fellow - citizens, and a hundred times I have made to myself the same apology (though in a somewhat different sense) for this happy race: whom it is impossible not to felicitate on their cheerful temperament, their frank and genial sociability, their natural cour tesy and kindliness; nor, on the other hand, to take to task for their immoderate love of pleasure Viennese existence may be defined, at least through the season, to be life drawn out into a recurring series of dances. In other lands the dance is the bye-play of life, and subordinate to its more earnest purposes: but in a Viennese winter it is one of the prime.

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