Letters from a Prairie GardenMarshall Jones Company, 1919 - 165 sayfa |
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Sayfa 106 - E che pensieri immensi, Che dolci sogni mi spirò la vista Di quel lontano mar, quei monti^ azzurri, Che di qua scopro, e che varcare un giorno Io mi pensava, arcani mondi, arcana Felicità fingendo al viver mio!
Sayfa 79 - I am in my own farm," says he, "and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots: I have caught hold of the earth, to use a gardener's phrase, and neither my enemies nor my friends will find it an easy matter to transplant me again.
Sayfa 137 - Methinks it would please any man to look upon a geographical map, [3324]_sauvi animum delectatione allicere, ob incredibilem rerum varietatem et jucunditatem, et ad pleniorem sui cognitionem excitare_, chorographical, topographical delineations, to behold, as it were, all the remote provinces, towns, cities of the world, and never to go forth of the limits of his study, to measure by the scale and compass their extent, distance, examine their site.
Sayfa 144 - England today as an old gentleman who is traveling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated from long housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn; great trunk, little trunk, bandbox, and bundle.
Sayfa 104 - Veil of Maya' - the illusion, ie, which envelops the living so that they pass, unseeing, lightly over the crevasses of life, and over its dreary wastes, - is already pierced in him by sudden glimpses of insight into the mystery of the unseen. His was no doubt an abnormal constitution, probably further unstrung by this roving style of life, which facilitated these fits of moody absorbtion in the inevitable misery of the world"; W. Wallace, Life of Arthur...
Sayfa 47 - To some one else, the sensation I experience when I pour thick yellow cream out of an old buff-colored stone-ware pitcher, a sensation richer in contentment than the coins of Croesus could buy. To another my interest in pictures, and the collection that hangs upon the walls of my mind. To another my pleasure in promenading my eyes over the surfaces of things that are fine. I have a right to prefer surfaces to souls if I wish.
Sayfa 47 - I am not going to tell you) the joy I have when I open my eyes in the morning and see the skirt of the day fluted with light. To another, the pleasure I had when I was a child and dipped a shining tin dipper into a sparkling pail of freshly drawn spring-water...
Sayfa 153 - I had red raspberries for breakfast this morning which makes this a remarkable day. I wish you could have seen them piled upon powdered ice, with yellow cream on top of them. I recall a dish of berries that Renoir painted that has just this luscious ripeness.
Sayfa 151 - The heart of a freshly cut cabbage is just the hue of the huge ivory objects African kings have carved. And this changes by the subtlest gradations to wet, refreshing green.