My Farm of Edgewood: A Country BookC. Scribner, 1863 - 319 pàgines |
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Pàgina 179 - Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines ; Curl me about, ye gadding vines; And oh so close your circles lace, That I may never leave this place : But, lest your fetters prove too weak, . Ere I your silken bondage break, Do you, O brambles, chain me too, And, courteous briars, nail me through.* I was here as in a lonely temple.
Pàgina 73 - ... accompanied with old songs, honest thoughts, and prayers, but short ones ; yet they have their efficacy, in that they are not palled with ensuing idle cogitations. Lastly, her dreams are so chaste, that she dare tell them ; only a Friday's dream is all her superstition ; that she conceals for fear of anger. Thus lives she ; and all her care is she may die in the spring-time, to have store of flowers stuck upon her winding-sheet.
Pàgina 53 - A young girl of my acquaintance was greatly afraid of bees, but was completely cured of her fear by the following incident. A swarm having come off, I observed the queen alight by herself at a little distance from the apiary. I immediately called my little friend that I might show her the queen ; she wished to...
Pàgina 20 - IF A man would enter upon country life in earnest and test thoroughly its aptitudes and royalties, he must not toy with it at a town distance; he must brush the dews away with his own feet. He must bring the front of his head to the business, and not the back of it. DONALD G. MITCHELL, In My Farm of Edge-wood. IF any one thing is more essential than any other in every branch of farming it is that the owner personally direct all operations. He cannot be an absentee farmer and he cannot entrust his...
Pàgina 229 - Paralipomena, lib. i. 720. enemy ; and that thereupon a divine decree of punishment had wreaked utter destruction on the fleet and people. How would the ugliness of Thersites appear then? If ugliness, when harmless, may be ridiculous ; when hurtful it is always horrible. I do not know how I can better illustrate this than by citing a couple of excellent passages from Shakspeare. Edmund, the bastard of the count of Gloucester, in King Lear, is no less a villain than Eichard Duke of Gloucester, who...
Pàgina 179 - Then, with baskets we sally out; I taking the middle rank, and the children the outer spray of boughs. Even now we gather those only which drop at the touch; these, in a brimming saucer, with golden Alderney cream, and a...
Pàgina 39 - It is the name it bears now. I will not detail the means by which the coyness of my iron-gray-haired friend was won over to a sale. It is enough to tell, that within six weeks from the day on which I had first sighted the view — and brushed through the lilac-hedge at the door — the place, from having been the home of another, had become a home of mine, and a new stock of Lares was blooming in the atrium. — My Farm of Edgewood. A PICTURE OF RAIN. Will any of our artists ever give us on canvas...
Pàgina 53 - I done so, when we were surrounded by the whole bees of the swarm. In this emergency I encouraged the trembling girl to be steady, and to fear nothing, remaining myself close by her, and covering her head and shoulders with a thin handkerchief. I then made her stretch out the hand that held the Queen, and the bees instantly alighted on it, and hung from her fingers as from the branch of a tree. The little girl, experiencing no injury, was delighted above measure at the novel sight, and so entirely...
Pàgina 287 - If I have no coaches and horses, I can at least hang a tracery of vine-leaves along my porch, so exquisitely delicate, that no sculpture can match it ; if I have no conservatories with their wonders, yet the sun and I together can build up a little tangled coppice of blooming things in my door-yard, of which every tiny floral leaflet shall be a miracle. Nay, I may make my home, however small it be, so complete in its simplicity, so fitted to its offices, so governed by neatness, so embowered by wealth...