 | 1854 - 792 Seiten
...threatens, without attaining these, to become no better than a modern drawing-room, with its divans, and ottomans, and sunshades, and a hundred other oriental...myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox-cart with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an... | |
 | 1857 - 676 Seiten
...threatens, without attaining these, to become no better than a modern drawing-room, with its divans, and ottomans, and sunshades, and a hundred other oriental...myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox-cart with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an... | |
 | 1862 - 588 Seiten
...eulogy rather strongly 1662. NEW ENGLAND FARMER. JAW. expressed by the Walden-Pondist, when he says, "I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I wouid rather ride on earth in an ox-cart, with a free circulation, than to go to heaven in the fancy... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1897 - 1172 Seiten
...the hearthstone. Thoreau wants the freedom of absolute detachment. « I would rather,* he says, « sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. . . . The very simplicity and nakedness of man's life in the primitive ages imply this advantage, at... | |
 | Wilson Flagg - 1872 - 550 Seiten
...the world. He saw truths, but they were for the imagination, not the reason. " I would," he said, " rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox-cart with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1877 - 322 Seiten
...great blessing, albeit I think its eulogy rather strongly expressed by the Walden-Pondit, when he says, "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to...myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an oxcart with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an... | |
 | Louisa May Alcott - 1877 - 408 Seiten
...seemed to have Filtered through to the thoughts within. " Here's a characteristic bit for you : — " ' I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to...myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox-cart, with free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1881 - 774 Seiten
...and constantly demanded the utmost freedom and room for the employment of the workings of his mind. " I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion," he said once, and the words tell truly the character and spirit of the man. He never trimmed his opinions... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 Seiten
...and a hundred other oriental things, which we are taking west with us, invented for the ladies of the harem and the effeminate natives of the Celestial...myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of... | |
 | George Stewart - 1882 - 44 Seiten
...and constantly demanded the utmost freedom and room for the employment of the workings of his mind. " I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion," he said once, and the words tell truly the character and spirit of the man. He never trimmed his opinions... | |
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. 
