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. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls... Education - Pàgina 3571909Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Folklore Society (Great Britain) - 1879 - 300 pàgines
...Donkey in the Cevennes," by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the following extract from the work is quoted, " What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked...; even as she takes her rest she turns and smiles, and there is one stirring hour unknown to those who dwell in houses when a wakeful influence goes abroad... | |
| 1879 - 884 pàgines
...with its stars, and dews, and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes iu the face of nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked...hear Nature breathing deeply and freely ; even as she tokos her rest she turns and smiles; and there is oue stirring hour unknown to those who dwell in houses,... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1879 - 1410 pàgines
...with its stars, and dews, and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a lurlit and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield. All night long he can hear Nature breathing... | |
| 1880 - 470 pàgines
...with its stars, and dews, and perfumes ; and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked...; even as she takes her rest she turns and smiles ; and there is one stirring hour unknown to those who dwell in houses, when a wakeful influence goes... | |
| Arthur Patchett Martin - 1885 - 262 pàgines
...with its stars, and dews, and perfumes ; and the hours arc marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked...; even as she takes her rest she turns and smiles ; and there is one stirring hour unknown to those who dwell in houses, when a wakeful influence goes... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1886 - 284 pàgines
...lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked...; even as she takes her rest she turns and smiles ; and there is one stirring hour unknown to those who dwell in houses, when a wakeful influence goes... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 382 pàgines
...lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked...; even as she takes her rest she turns and smiles ; and there is one stirring hour unknown to those who dwell in houses, when a wakeful influence goes... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 644 pàgines
...lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and^tFe hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choke,d...even as she takes her rest, she* turns and smiles; and there is one stirring hour unknown to those who dwell in houses, when a wakeful influence goes... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 628 pàgines
...lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked...even as she takes her rest, she turns and smiles; and there is one stirring hour unknown to those who dwell in houses, when a wakeful influence goes... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 382 pàgines
...lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked...freely; even as she takes her rest she turns and smiles; and there is one stirring hour unknown to those who dwell in houses, when a wakeful influence goes... | |
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