 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...  Trees in Nature, Myth and Art - Page 204by John Ernest Phythian - 1907 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Folklore Society (Great Britain) - 1879 - 300 pages
...Stevenson, and the following extract from the work is quoted, " What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains is only...dwell in houses when a wakeful influence goes abroad and all the outdoor world are on their feet. It is then that the cock first crows, not this time to... | |
 | 1879 - 884 pages
...perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes iu the face of nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only...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 pages
...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...takes her rest she turns and smiles ; and there is oue stirring hour unknown to those who dwell in houses, when a wakeful influence goes abroad over the... | |
 | 1880 - 470 pages
...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...goes abroad over the sleeping hemisphere, and all the out-door world are on their feet. It is then that the cock first crows, not this time to announce the... | |
 | 1909 - 752 pages
...intellectual vision as broad as Stevenson's? Listen to what he saw : — " What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only...freely; even as she takes her rest she turns and smiles. The stars were clear, colored, and jewel-like, but not frosty. A faint, silvery vaporstood for the... | |
 | 1880 - 1178 pages
...traveler in the Cevennes makes a very curious observation to the effect that there is in that region one stirring hour unknown to those who dwell in houses, when a wakeful influence goes abroad, and all the out-door world are aroused. The cocks crow, cattle awake in the meadows, sheep break their... | |
 | Arthur Patchett Martin - 1885 - 262 pages
...perfumes ; and the hours arc marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only...goes abroad over the sleeping hemisphere, and all the out-door world are on their feet. It is then that the cock first crows — not this time to announce... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1886 - 284 pages
...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...goes abroad over the sleeping hemisphere, and all the outdoor world are on their feet. It is then that the cock first crows, not this time to announce the... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 628 pages
...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...goes abroad over the sleeping hemisphere, and all the outdoor world are on their feet. It is then that the cock first crows, not this time to announce the... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 382 pages
...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...goes abroad over the sleeping hemisphere, and all the outdoor world are on their feet. It is then that the cock first crows, not this time to announce the... | |
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