Out-of-town Places: With Hints for Their ImprovementC. Scribner's Sons, 1884 - 295 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 293 - No begging wants his middle fortune bite : But sweet content exiles both misery and spite. His certain life, that never can deceive him, Is full of thousand sweets and rich content ; The smooth-leaved beeches in the field receive him, With coolest shade, till noontide's heat be spent. His life is neither toss'd in boisterous seas Or the vexatious world, or lost in slothful ease : Pleased and full bless'd he lives, when he his God can please.
الصفحة 293 - His certain life, that never can deceive him, Is full of thousand sweets, and rich content; The smooth-leaved beeches in the field receive him With coolest shade, till noontide's heat be spent: His life is neither tossed in boisterous seas, Or the vexatious world, or lost in slothful ease: Pleased and full blest he lives, when he his God can please.
الصفحة 209 - Here (in the country) is your quiet landholder, living in the performance of a humble range of duties — rearing brown-cheeked boys, who will make their way to high places of trust — to generalships, to governorships, by dint of their sturdy habits of self-denial, and of work, which have belonged to their early life ; and, on the other hand, yonder by the gas-lights is your business man of the city, rearing boys under the shadow of the Broadway shops, who, by reason of no self-denial at all, will...
الصفحة 74 - I have hinted, and that grotesqueness which is compassed by scores of crooked limbs and knots wrought into labyrinthine patterns, which puzzle the eye, more than they please. All crooked things are not necessarily charming, and the better kind of homeliness is measured by something besides mere roughness. Lastly, there is your hospitable gate, with its little rooflet stretched over it, as if to invite the stranger loiterer to partake at his will of that much of the hospitalities of the home. Even...
الصفحة 224 - That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That...
الصفحة 19 - ... illustrative hints toward the amendment of rural life — whether in matters of good husbandry, or of good taste ; I have furthermore ventured upon certain homeliness of detail in these opening pages, to show that I may have privilege of speech. There is no manner of work done upon a New England farm...
الصفحة 143 - ... secured, easily held in reserve, easily made attractive ; and if there was no room for a broad expanse of sward, at least there might be planted some attractive copse of evergreens or shrubbery, to declare by graceful type the rural pride of the place. First impressions count for a great deal — whether in our meeting with a woman or with a village. Slipshoddiness is bad economy in towns as in people. Every season there is a whirl of citizens, tired of city heats and costs, traversing the country...
الصفحة 97 - A country house without a porch is like a man without an eyebrow; it gives expression, and gives expression where you most want it. The least office of a porch is that of affording protection against the rain-beat and the sun-beat. It is an interpreter of character; it humanizes bald walls and windows; it emphasizes architectural tone; it gives hint of hospitality; it is a hand stretched out (figuratively and lumberingly, often) from the world within to the world without. At a church door even, a...
الصفحة 149 - It is in the way of being seen ; it is in the way of being seen of those who are not immediately engrossed with other care than the easy care of travel ; it gives suggestions to them in their most accessible moods.