 In the old days, a good part o' the best men here knew a hundred ports and something of the way folks lived in them. They saw the world for themselves, and like's not their wives and children saw it with them. They may not have had the best of knowledge...  The Country of the Pointed Firs - Page 27by Sarah Orne Jewett - 1896 - 213 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sarah Orne Jewett - 1924 - 336 pages
...of 'em. There is no occupation so fit for just that class o' men who never get beyond the fo'cas'le. I view it, in addition, that a community narrows down...not have had the best of knowledge to carry with 'em sight-seem', but they were some acquainted with foreign lands an' their laws, an' could see outside... | |
 | Margaret Farrand Thorp - Biography & Autobiography - 1966 - 50 pages
...place for spirits between earth and heaven, but about the changes in the Landing he is quite lucid. "In the old days a good part o' the best men here...lived in them. They saw the world for themselves, and like's not their wives and children saw it with them. . . . they got some sense o' proportion." Mr.... | |
 | Various - Fiction - 1990 - 276 pages
...of 'em. There is no occupation so fit for just that class o' men who never get beyond the fo'cas'le. I view it, in addition, that a community narrows down...lived in them. They saw the world for themselves, and like's not their wives and children saw it with them. They may not have had the best of knowledge to... | |
 | Sarah Orne Jewett - Fiction - 1994 - 340 pages
...of 'em. There is no occupation so fit for just that class o' men who never get beyond the fo'cas'le. I view it, in addition, that a community narrows down...lived in them. They saw the world for themselves, and like's not their wives and children saw it with them. They may not have had the best of knowledge to... | |
 | June Howard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 144 pages
...the village and other parts of the world is mediated by the metropolis. Captain Littlepage laments: "A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant...lived in them. They saw the world for themselves, and like's not their wives and children saw it with them" (p. 20). Jewett's stories include treatments... | |
 | John Henricksson - 251 pages
...forgiveness. "I view it," says Captain Littlepage in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, that a community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant...and something of the way folks lived in them. They may not have had the best knowledge to carry with 'em sight-seem', but they were some acquainted with... | |
 | Sarah Orne Jewett - Fiction - 1997 - 354 pages
...this broadening experience came through the region's shipping trade. As Captain Littlepage explains, "in the old days, a good part o' the best men here knew a xxviii INTRODUCTION hundred ports and something of the way folks lived in them. They saw the world... | |
 | Gabriele Hansen - Grief in literature - 1998 - 260 pages
...view it, in addition, that a community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut down to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside...something of the way folks lived in them. [...] they got some sense o' proportion." Pointed Firs, 20. 773 Pointed Firs, 17-8. 774 Er trauert der Vergangenheit... | |
 | Judith Fetterley, Marjorie Pryse - American literature - 2003 - 440 pages
...the shipping industry in Maine, people became disconnected from the rest of the world: "I view it ... that a community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant...lived in them. They saw the world for themselves, and like's not their wives and children saw it with them. They may not have had the best of knowledge to... | |
 | Cathy N. Davidson, Jessamyn Hatcher - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 452 pages
...healing— both for her readers and the residents of Dunnet Landing, about whom Captain Littlepage says. In the old days, a good part o' the best men here...lived in them. They saw the world for themselves, and like's not their wives and children saw it with them. They may not have had the best of knowledge to... | |
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