| 1819 - 610 pages
...fileside; — all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources, and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind. If ever love, as poets sing, delights to visit a cotUge, it must be the cottage of an English peasant. " The proneness to rural life among the higher... | |
| Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...fire-side : — all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources, and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind. If ever love,...the softness and effeminacy which characterize the men of rank in most countries, they exhibit a union of elegance and strength, a robustness of frame... | |
| Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...fire-side : all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources, and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind. If ever Love,...the softness and effeminacy which characterize the men of rank in most countries, they exhibit a union of elegance and strength, a robustness of frame... | |
| 1820 - 870 pages
...fireside : — all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources, and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind. If ever love,...the softness and effeminacy which characterize the men of rank in most countries, they exhibit a un\on of elegance and strength, a robustness of frame... | |
| Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...fire-side : — all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources, and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind. If ever love,...the softness and effeminacy which characterize the men of rank in most countries, they exhibit a union of elegance and strength, a robustness of frame... | |
| 1822 - 588 pages
...fire-side ; all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources. and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind. If ever love,...visit a cottage, it must be the cottage of an English labourer." To the Editor of the Cottager's Monthly Visitor. SIR, I AM no scholar, and do not often... | |
| Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1823 - 392 pages
...fireside : all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources, and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind. If ever Love,...peasant. The fondness for rural life among the higher • tl asses of the English has had a great and salutary effect upon the national character. I do not... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...fireside : all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources, and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind. If ever Love,...of an English peasant. The fondness for rural life amqng the higher cl asses of the English has had a great and salutary effect upon the national character.... | |
| English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...seclusion. side; — all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources, and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind. If ever love, as poets sing, delights to visit a cuttage, it must be the cottage of an English peasant " The proneness to rural life among the hjgher... | |
| Psychology - 1828 - 394 pages
...fireside :— all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources, and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind. If ever love,...cottage, it must be the cottage of an English peasant. LESSON XLII. Rural Occupation. IN rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing. It leads a man... | |
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