Homespun: Or, Five and Twenty Years AgoHurd and Houghton, 1867 - 346 pagina's |
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... 245 254 265 275 BOOK III . - BUCOLICS . A DAY'S WORK ON THE FARM FARMERS ' WIVES 283 295 FARMERS ' DAUGHTERS FARMERS ' SONS THE HIRED MAN 306 319 330 THE TURKEY NEST 342 PREFACE . IT T has always fallen to the lot iv CONTENTS .
... 245 254 265 275 BOOK III . - BUCOLICS . A DAY'S WORK ON THE FARM FARMERS ' WIVES 283 295 FARMERS ' DAUGHTERS FARMERS ' SONS THE HIRED MAN 306 319 330 THE TURKEY NEST 342 PREFACE . IT T has always fallen to the lot iv CONTENTS .
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... Farm - house , the Homestead , and the Rustic Cottage . Much has been written and read , too , of the Boulevards and Rotten Row , of the Strand and the Corso ; but little enough of quiet country roads , sequestered green lanes , cart ...
... Farm - house , the Homestead , and the Rustic Cottage . Much has been written and read , too , of the Boulevards and Rotten Row , of the Strand and the Corso ; but little enough of quiet country roads , sequestered green lanes , cart ...
Pagina vi
... farm - houses of thirty years ago , because they stood at their wheels and spun the thread at home with such patience and faith . It gives us a special delight to reflect that some of our greatest men were men of genu- ine homespun ...
... farm - houses of thirty years ago , because they stood at their wheels and spun the thread at home with such patience and faith . It gives us a special delight to reflect that some of our greatest men were men of genu- ine homespun ...
Pagina 35
... reaches of woodland . It gives me a secret pleasure then to roll past lordly farm - houses , catching glimpses of smok- ing cattle about the barn doors , or signs of in- quisitive human life at the front windows ; or sounds RAINY DAYS . 35.
... reaches of woodland . It gives me a secret pleasure then to roll past lordly farm - houses , catching glimpses of smok- ing cattle about the barn doors , or signs of in- quisitive human life at the front windows ; or sounds RAINY DAYS . 35.
Pagina 80
... farm establishment , where all labor and profit begins and ends ; and hence , like men who love their money - bags best of all things , they want the workshop where they can see it ; and even per- mit the tyrannical sense of smell to ...
... farm establishment , where all labor and profit begins and ends ; and hence , like men who love their money - bags best of all things , they want the workshop where they can see it ; and even per- mit the tyrannical sense of smell to ...
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Pagina 174 - I'll be as certain to make him a good dish of meat, as I was to catch him. I'll now lead you to an honest ale-house where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall...
Pagina 37 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man...
Pagina 48 - You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd Th...
Pagina 171 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Pagina 37 - Almost all you see," said the good old man, " is the work of my own hands, though I am bordering on eighty years of age. My old woman does the weeding, and John mows the turf and digs for me ; but all the nicer work — the sowing, grafting, budding, transplanting, and the like — I trust to no other hand but my own — so long, at least, as my health will allow me to enjoy so pleasing an occupation ; and, in good sooth, the fruits here taste more sweet, and the flowers have a richer perfume, than...
Pagina i - Happy he whom neither wealth nor fashion, Nor the march of the encroaching city, Drives an exile From the hearth of his ancestral homestead. We may build more splendid habitations, Fill our rooms with paintings and with sculptures, But we cannot Buy with gold the old associations ! CATAWBA WINE.
Pagina 16 - Above the wood which grides and clangs Its leafless ribs and iron horns Together, in the drifts that pass To darken on the rolling brine That breaks the coast. But fetch the wine. Arrange the board and brim the glass; Bring in great logs and let them lie, To make a solid core of heat; Be cheerful-minded, talk and treat Of all things ev'n as he were by; We keep the day.
Pagina 43 - To be right in the rnidst of your own growing vegetables ; to behold the favorite sunflowers all turned to the east ; to watch the beansprouts, coming up with their twin leaves out of the cleft heart of the seed ; to shave down ranks of red-stemmed weeds with a single sweep of the bright hoe ; to brush your peas, pole your beans, set frames to support your cucumbers and tomatoes, trim your young hedges, hunt the bugs among the squash vines, and plan new paths through beds of vegetables and rows of...
Pagina 186 - Decws et tutamen in armis." There he is in the saddle now ! How proudly that best piece of horse-flesh in the county takes his martial paces across the turf he spurns ! How gayly glitter the epaulettes of his rider — how gracefully waves his plume — how noisily jingle his regimental trappings! He must assuredly feel as if the neck of his steed was