According to the well-known law, however, the Renaissance, made for the people of the plains, never fully took root in Siena, as in other parts of Tuscany, and the loss of its independence and power in 1555 led to a suspension of building activity, which to the taste of the present day is most fortunate, inasmuch as the baroque of the 17th and the false classicism of the 18th centuries have had hardly any effect here; and few towns of Italy are so unspoilt by restoration or the addition of incongruous modern buildings, or preserve so many characteristics and so much of the real spirit (manifested to-day in the grave and pleasing courtesy of the inhabitants) of the middle ages, which its narrow and picturesque streets seem to retain. [Please select]
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A day or two, then bliss unspoilt, But oh. [Please select]
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Here, at least, was something true to itself, and amid so much of change, so much of spoiling, still unspoilt. [Please select]
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I consider Chagmouth one of the last strongholds for an artist, and I'm going to live here as long as it remains unspoilt.' [Please select]
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He was far too good-natured and unspoilt, and I was too fond of him. [Please select]
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For the most part Jack was calm as a mill-pond, deep as the Atlantic, straightforward and grave as an undertaker's clerk and good-humoured as an unspoilt and healthy child. [Please select]
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Tivermouth had a reputation as a beauty spot, and owing to its long distance from the railway was as yet unspoilt by a too great invasion of tourists. [Please select]
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