 | Charles Boissevain - 1909 - 512 sivua
...over my head, and the green turfbeneath iny feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' marcli to dinner — and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone hoaths. I laugh, I run, I leap, I sing forjoy. From the point of y onder rolliug cloud I plunge into... | |
 | Charles Boissevain - 1909 - 528 sivua
...vervoert? Lees dan dien essay van Hazlitt »On Going a Journey*, welke Potgieter zoo hartelijk bewonderde. „Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turfbeneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner — and ilirn to... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1911 - 590 sivua
...watering-places, and carry the metropolis with them. I like more elbow-room and fewer incumbrances. . . . Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green...winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner—and then to thinking. - It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths. I laugh,... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 1913 - 362 sivua
...ambition. These are the winding ways preferred by your connoisseur to-day. " Give me," says Hazlitt, " the clear blue sky over my head and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three-hours' march to dinner — and then to thinking ! " These windings are created by the undulating... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 sivua
...friend in a postchaise or in a Tilbury, to exchange good things with, and vary the same stale topics over again, for once let me have a truce with impertinence. Give me 5 the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 248 sivua
...friend in a post-chaise or in a Tilbury, to exchange good things with, and vary the same stale topics over again, for once let me have a truce with impertinence....over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, and a three hours' march to dinner — and then to thinking. It is hard if I cannot start some game... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 372 sivua
...friend in a post-chaise or in a tilbury, to exchange good things with, and vary the same stale topics over again, for once let me have a truce with impertinence....the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beloneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner — and then to thinking... | |
 | John Bessner Huber - 1914 - 198 sivua
...well as in the first, maintained the best of all exercises to be walking. "Give me," enthused Hazlitt, "the clear, blue sky over my head, and the green turf...a winding road before me and a three hours' march ; and then to thinking." Whereat Stevenson : "And he must have a winding road, the epicure." Poor,... | |
 | University of Pennsylvania - 1917 - 922 sivua
...tax levied on all who have not read it." "Give me the clear blue sky over my head," writes Hazlitt, "and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road...and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start somegameon these lone heaths." " How fine it is to enter some old town, walled and turreted, just at... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - 1916 - 576 sivua
...be a tax levied on all who have not read it: " Give me the clear blue sky over my head," says he, " and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road...lone heaths. I laugh, I run, I leap, I sing for joy." Bravo! After that adventure of my friend with the policeman, you would not have cared, would you, to... | |
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Give me the clear blue sky over my head," says he, "and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner — and then to thinking ! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths. I laugh, I run,... 
