All 50 Uses of
Florence
in
A Room With A View
- The scene is laid in Florence.
Chpt 15 *Florence = city in central Italy that was the center of the Italian Renaissance
- He asked the girl whether she knew Florence well, and was informed at some length that she had never been there before.†
Chpt 1
- It would be hard indeed if I stopped you doing as you liked at Florence, when I am only here through your kindness.†
Chpt 1
- Chapter II: In Santa Croce with No Baedeker It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.†
Chpt 2
- Lucy would rather like to go out, as it was her first day in Florence, but, of course, she could go alone.†
Chpt 2
- So Miss Lavish proceeded through the streets of the city of Florence, short, fidgety, and playful as a kitten, though without a kitten's grace.†
Chpt 2
- But Miss Lavish had said so much about knowing her Florence by heart, that Lucy had followed her with no misgivings.†
Chpt 2
- Her first morning was ruined, and she might never be in Florence again.†
Chpt 2
- There will be a deal of local colouring, descriptions of Florence and the neighbourhood, and I shall also introduce some humorous characters.†
Chpt 5
- The view thence of Florence is most beautiful—far better than the hackneyed view of Fiesole.†
Chpt 5
- He was a member of the residential colony who had made Florence their home.†
Chpt 5
- Living in delicate seclusion, some in furnished flats, others in Renaissance villas on Fiesole's slope, they read, wrote, studied, and exchanged ideas, thus attaining to that intimate knowledge, or rather perception, of Florence which is denied to all who carry in their pockets the coupons of Cook.†
Chpt 5
- To one who loves the Florence of Dante and Savonarola there is something portentous in such desecration—portentous and humiliating.†
Chpt 5
- There are some working men whom one would be very willing to see out here in Florence—little as they would make of it.†
Chpt 5
- The well-known world had broken up, and there emerged Florence, a magic city where people thought and did the most extraordinary things.†
Chpt 5
- I do hope Florence isn't boring you.†
Chpt 5
- I'm sick of Florence.†
Chpt 5
- And now celestial irony, working through her cousin and two clergymen, did not suffer her to leave Florence till she had made this expedition with him through the hills.†
Chpt 6
- If you will not think me rude, we residents sometimes pity you poor tourists not a little—handed about like a parcel of goods from Venice to Florence, from Florence to Rome, living herded together in pensions or hotels, quite unconscious of anything that is outside Baedeker, their one anxiety to get 'done' or 'through' and go on somewhere else.†
Chpt 6
- If you will not think me rude, we residents sometimes pity you poor tourists not a little—handed about like a parcel of goods from Venice to Florence, from Florence to Rome, living herded together in pensions or hotels, quite unconscious of anything that is outside Baedeker, their one anxiety to get 'done' or 'through' and go on somewhere else.†
Chpt 6
- Now, the English colony at Florence, Miss Honeychurch—and it is of considerable size, though, of course, not all equally—a few are here for trade, for example.†
Chpt 6
- Standing there, he had seen that view of the Val d'Arno and distant Florence, which he afterwards had introduced not very effectively into his work.†
Chpt 6
- As her time at Florence drew to its close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.†
Chpt 6
- She renewed it when the two carriages stopped, half into Florence.†
Chpt 7
- "Mr. Beebe!" said the maid, and the new rector of Summer Street was shown in; he had at once started on friendly relations, owing to Lucy's praise of him in her letters from Florence.†
Chpt 8
- Well, I must say I've only seen her at Tunbridge Wells, where she was not wonderful, and at Florence.†
Chpt 8
- No, she wasn't wonderful in Florence either, but I kept on expecting that she would be.†
Chpt 8
- I foresaw at Florence that her quiet, uneventful childhood must end, and it has ended.†
Chpt 8
- "Now, a clergyman that I do hate," said she wanting to say something sympathetic, "a clergyman that does have fences, and the most dreadful ones, is Mr. Eager, the English chaplain at Florence.†
Chpt 9
- He diverted it as follows: "The Emersons who were at Florence, do you mean?†
Chpt 10
- I have said both to her and Cecil that I met the Emersons at Florence, and that they are respectable people—which I do think—and the reason that he offered Miss Lavish no tea was probably that he had none himself.†
Chpt 11
- Giotto—they got that at Florence, I'll be bound.†
Chpt 12
- Let me introduce Mr. Honeychurch, whose sister you will remember at Florence.†
Chpt 12
- He spoke of Florence.†
Chpt 12
- "I saw him in Florence," said Lucy, hoping that this would pass for a reply.†
Chpt 13
- Well, she would leave Florence so stupidly.†
Chpt 13
- I blush when I think how I interfered at Florence, and you so well able to look after yourself, and so much cleverer in all ways than I am.†
Chpt 14
- You met her with my daughter in Florence.†
Chpt 15
- To one of her upbringing, and of her destination, the weakness of men was a truth unfamiliar, but she had surmised it at Florence, when George threw her photographs into the River Arno.†
Chpt 15
- Satisfactory that Mr. Emerson had not been told of the Florence escapade; yet Lucy's spirits should not have leapt up as if she had sighted the ramparts of heaven.†
Chpt 15
- She was even glad that Miss Bartlett had made her promise secrecy, that last dark evening at Florence, when they had knelt packing in his room.†
Chpt 15
- One could play a new game with the view, and try to find in its innumerable folds some town or village that would do for Florence.†
Chpt 15
- "'The scene is laid in Florence,'" repeated Cecil, with an upward note.†
Chpt 15
- He read: "'Afar off the towers of Florence, while the bank on which she sat was carpeted with violets.†
Chpt 15
- They are on a hillside, and Florence is in the distance.†
Chpt 16
- She remembered their last evening at Florence—the packing, the candle, the shadow of Miss Bartlett's toque on the door.†
Chpt 16
- "Since Florence did my poor sister so much good," wrote Miss Catharine, "we do not see why we should not try Athens this winter.†
Chpt 18
- As he had put it to himself at Florence, "she might yet reveal depths of strangeness, if not of meaning."†
Chpt 18
- She wanted to leave Florence, and when we got to Rome she did not want to be in Rome, and all the time I felt that I was spending her mother's money—.†
Chpt 18
- Ever since that last evening at Florence she had deemed it unwise to reveal her soul.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(Florence as in: the city) city in central Italy that was the center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries; provincial capital of Tuscany
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) the name of a person or other place