An Inland Voyage: Travels with a Donkey |
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Page 219 - Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof ; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature.
Page 17 - To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Page 336 - O lang, lang may the ladies sit, Wi' their fans into their hand, Before they see Sir Patrick Spens Come sailing to the strand! And lang, lang may the maidens sit Wi' their gowd kames in their hair, A-waiting for their ain dear loves!
Page 186 - For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move...
Page 223 - I looked round me for something beautiful and unexpected; but the still black pine-trees, the hollow glade, the munching ass, remained unchanged in figure. Nothing had altered but the light, and that, indeed, shed over all a spirit of life and of breathing peace, and moved me to a strange exhilaration.
Page 63 - Birmingbam-hearted substitutes, who should bombard their sides to the provocation of a brand-new bell-ringer, and fill the echoes of the valley with terror and riot. At last the bells ceased, and with their note the sun withdrew. The piece was at an end; shadow and silence possessed the valley of the Oise.
Page 221 - Modestine walking round and round at the length of her tether; I could hear her steadily munching at the sward; but there was not another sound, save the indescribable quiet talk of the runnel over the stones. I lay lazily smoking and studying the colour of the sky, as we call the void of space from where it showed a reddish gray behind the pines to where it showed a glossy blueblack between the stars. As if to be more like a pedlar, I wear a silver ring. This I could see faintly shining as I raised...
Page 335 - Perhaps it is now one in the afternoon ; and at the same instant of time, a ball rises to the summit of Nelson's flagstaff close at hand, and, far away, a puff of smoke followed by a report bursts from the half-moon battery at the Castle. This is the time-gun by which people set their watches, as far as the sea coast or in hill farms upon the Pentlands. — To complete the view, the eye enfilades Princes Street, black with traffic, and has a broad look over the valley between the Old Town and the...
Page 98 - ... imposing. I could never fathom how a man dares to lift up his voice to preach in a cathedral. What is he to say that will not be an anti•climax? For though I have heard a considerable variety of sermons, I never yet heard one that was so expressive as a cathedral. Tis the best preacher itself, and preaches day and night ; not only telling you of man's art and aspirations in the past, but convicting your own soul of ardent sympathies; or rather, like all good preachers, it sets you preaching...
Page 164 - Modestine's mouse-colored, wedge-like rump? I should have preferred it otherwise, «» indeed; but yesterday's exploits had purged my heart of all humanity. The perverse little devil, since she would not be taken with kindness, must even go with pricking.