What is the country but a means of returning to our earliest youth, of finding again that faculty of happiness, that state of deep attention, that indifference to everything but pleasure and the present sensation, that facile joy which is a brimming spring... The Hermitage-Zoar Note-book and Journal of Travel - Strana 228podľa Alexander Gunn - 1902 - Počet stránok 261Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| Hippolyte Taine - 1874 - Počet stránok 372
...stalks. Why not confess that you have become a child again and are amused with the least of sights ? What is the country but a means of returning to our...brimming spring ready to overflow at the least impulse ? I passed an hour beside a squadron of ants who were dragging the body of a big fly across a stone.... | |
| Samuel Adams Drake - 1890 - Počet stránok 408
...flabby muscles into bronze and brawn. This is surely the common-sense side to a summer vacation. " What is the country but a means of returning to our...brimming spring ready to overflow at the least impulse ? " After looking into Sedgwick, a really picturesque village at the head of a pretty harbor, the boat... | |
| Samuel Adams Drake - 1891 - Počet stránok 412
...flabby muscles into bronze and brawn. This is surely the common-sense side to a summer vacation. " What is the country but a means of returning to our...brimming spring ready to overflow at the least impulse ? " After looking into Sedgwick, a really picturesque village at the head of a pretty harbor, the boat... | |
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