. A tour round my garden . Natural history. LETTER XII. Thk learned, who have invented so many words, ought to have imagined some that might give lis an exact idea of' colours and their shades. I confess that this embarrasses me more than anything else in the account of my journey. There are but very few words to designate colours, and even they are taken at hazard from ideas that are very far removed from each other. This annoys me the more, because colours have for me harmonies as ravishing as those of music, because they awaken in my mind thoughts perfectly strict and indi- vidual, and thei
. A tour round my garden . Natural history. LETTER XII. Thk learned, who have invented so many words, ought to have imagined some that might give lis an exact idea of' colours and their shades. I confess that this embarrasses me more than anything else in the account of my journey. There are but very few words to designate colours, and even they are taken at hazard from ideas that are very far removed from each other. This annoys me the more, because colours have for me harmonies as ravishing as those of music, because they awaken in my mind thoughts perfectly strict and indi- vidual, and their influence acts powerfully on my imagination. I was once put in prison; well, the walls themselves were not half so disagreeable to me as a certain chocolate colour with which they were clothed; I recognised, to a certain point, the right which society has to put a man in prison, but I could not admit the right of surroimding him with this horrible colour. One of the things most disagreeable to me in travelling, is the manner in which the chambers of inns are decorated: yellow curtains and red fringe, chairs with red covers and yellow fringe; these colours so generally and so barbarously. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Karr, Alphonse, 1808-1890; Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. London : F. Warne ; New York : Scribner, Welford and Armstrong
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