 | 1906 - 520 pages
...nature's beauty. Ugly, indeed, seemed the life of the squatter. One day, I said to the old stage driver, "What sort of people are they who have to make these new clearings?" "All of us," he replied, "we ain't happy here unless we are getting one of these new clearings under cultivation." "See that... | |
 | Owen Flanagan, Amelie Oksenberg Rorty - 1993 - 508 pages
...sunup to sundown and lacked anything that might be called "culture and refinement," told James that "we ain't happy here unless we are getting one of these coves under cultivation" (James 1983, 134). What they had in additon to what James would call an "ideal," namely the goal to... | |
 | Linda Simon - 1999 - 320 pages
...discomfort. As he was in the act of drawing this lesson, he said to the mountaineer who was driving him, — 'What sort of people are they who have to make these new clearings?' 'All of us,' the man replied. 'Why, we ain't happy here unless we are getting one of these coves under cultivation.'... | |
 | Jonathan M. Hansen - 2010 - 278 pages
...sort of people who could endure such a life. "All of us," replied the escort to James's amazement; "we ain't happy here unless we are getting one of these coves under cultivation." The scales fell from James's eyes. "I instantly felt that I had been losing the whole inward significance... | |
 | Robert D. Richardson - 2006 - 660 pages
...After more similarly gloomy meditation, James writes, "I said to the mountaineer who was driving me: 'What sort of people are they who have to make these...these coves under cultivation.' I instantly felt," James's account goes on, "that I had been losing the whole inward significance of the situation. Because... | |
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What sort of people are they who have to make these new clearings?' 'All of us,' he replied. 'Why, we ain't happy here unless we are getting one of these coves under cultivation. 