 As to the family, they always entered in. at the gate, and most generally lived in the kitchen. To have seen a numerous household assembled around the fire, one would have imagined that he was transported back to those happy days of primeval simplicity,...  Blackwood's Magazine - Pagina 3141820Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 pagina’s
...round the fire, one would have imagined that he was transported to those happy days of primeval 15 simplicity which float before our imaginations like...black and white, — nay, even the very cat and dog, 20 — enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a right to a corner. Here the old burgher would... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 pagina’s
...round the fire, one would have imagined that he was transported to those happy days of primeval is simplicity which float before our imaginations like...black and white, — nay, even the very cat and dog, 20 — enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a right to a corner. Here the old burgher would... | |
 | 1918 - 688 pagina’s
...seen a numerous household assembled round the fire, one would have imagined that he was transported to those happy days of primeval simplicity which float...imaginations like golden visions. The fire-places were of truly patriarchal magnitude, where the whole family, old and young, master and servant, black and white... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 530 pagina’s
...the gate, and most generally lived in the kitchen. To have seen a numerous household assembled round the fire one would have imagined that he was transported...days of primeval simplicity which float before our imagination like golden visions. The fireplaces were of a truly patriarchal magnitude, where the whole... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 pagina’s
...like golden visions. The fireplaces were of a truly patriarchal magnitude, where the whole family, 10 old and young, master and servant, black and white...— enjoyed a community of privilege and had each a right to a corner. Here the old burgher would sit in perfect silence, puffing his pipe, looking in... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke - 1925 - 638 pagina’s
...seen a numerous household assembled round the fire, one would have imagined that he was transported to those happy days of primeval simplicity which float...— enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a right to a corner. Here the old burgher would sit in perfect silence, puffing his pipe, looking in... | |
 | Isobel Davidson - 1925 - 512 pagina’s
...and the room carefully locked up until the revolution of time brought round the weekly cleaning-day. happy days of primeval simplicity, which float before...servant, black and white, nay, even the very cat and dog, had each a right to a corner. Here the old burgher would sit in perfect silence, puffing his pipe,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 910 pagina’s
...the gate, and most generally lived in the kitchen. To have seen a numerous household assembled round the fire, one would have imagined that he was transported...dog, enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a right to a corner. Here the old burgher would sit in perfect silence, puffing his pipe, looking in... | |
 | 1898 - 252 pagina’s
...country, where the Indians had great abundance of gold — and he promised to guide the ship there. The fireplaces were of a truly patriarchal magnitude,...— enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a right to a corner. It is May — nearly the end of May — and the spring wild-flowers have almost... | |
 | 1915 - 654 pagina’s
...the present time, in many countries, a recognized right of asylum obtains at the hearth. Irving says, "The fireplaces were of a truly patriarchal magnitude,...and white, nay, even the very cat and dog, enjoyed a comimmiu of privilege, and each had a right to a corner."* Although it is seldom to-day the "community... | |
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