 Broad," as he always called the extensive pool by which his cottage stood, was his microcosm — his world ; the islands in it were his gardens of the Hesperides ; its opposite extremity his ultima Thule. Wherever his thoughts wandered, they could not...  Norfolk - Página 147por William Alfred Dutt - 1900 - 347 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1879 - 796 páginas
...cottage stood, was his microcosm, his world — the islands in it were his gardens of the Hespcrides, its opposite extremity his ultima Thule, Wherever...away from 'our Broad.' I went into his house at the dinner-hour, and found the whole party going to fall to, most thankfully, upon a roasted herring. gill,... | |
 | 1879 - 834 páginas
...wandered, they could not get beyond the circle of hie beloved lake ; indeed I never knew them aberrant hut once, when he informed me, with a doubting air, that...away from ' our Broad.' I went into his house at the dinner-hour, and fourni the whole party going to fall to, most thankfully, upon a roasted herringgull,... | |
 | George Christopher Davies - 1884 - 386 páginas
...he always called the extensive pool by which his cottage stood, was his microcosm, his world—the islands in it were his gardens of the Hesperides,...away from ' Our Broad.' I went into his house at the dinner-hour, and found the whole party going to fall to, most thankfully, upon a roasted herring-gull—killed,... | |
 | 1886 - 848 páginas
...in his early days, and had lived on it and by it without moving away from it summer or winter. " ' Our broad,' as he always called the extensive pool...off, that their ideas might expand by travel ; as he safely observed they had never before been away from ' our broad ! ' " This was forty years ago. It... | |
 | 1896 - 930 páginas
...— his Ultima Tkule. His thoughts never got beyond the lake but once, when he informed Mr. Lubbock, with a doubting air, that he had sent his wife and...two eldest children to a fair at a country village about two miles off, "that their ideas might expand by travel," as they had never been away from "... | |
 | 1897 - 606 páginas
...the verge of a pool, who relied almost entirely on shooting and fishing for the support of himself and family, and lived in a truly primitive manner....away from " our Broad." I went into his house at the dinner-hour, and found the whole party going to fall to most thankfully upon a roasted herring-gull,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 614 páginas
...cottage stood, was his microcosm — his world ; the islands in it were his gardens of the Hesporides ; its opposite extremity his ultima Thule. Wherever...away from " our Broad." I went into his house at the dinner-hour, and found the whole party going to fall to most thankfully upon a roasted herring-gull,... | |
 | 1879 - 958 páginas
...— the islands in it were his gardens of the Hesperides, its opposite extremity his ultima Thult. Wherever his thoughts wandered. they could not get...away from ' our Broad.' I went into his house at the dinner-hour, and found the whole party going to fall to, most thankfully, upon a roasted herring§tll,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 608 páginas
...the support of himself and family, and lived in a truly primitive manner. I particularly remember cue hero of this description. " Our Broad," as he always...away from " our Broad." I went into his house at the dinner-hour, and found the whole party going to fall to most thankfully upon a roasted herring-gull,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 608 páginas
...wandered, they could not get beyond the circle of his beloved lake ; indeed, I never knew them aberrant hut once, when he informed me, with a doubting air, that...away from " our Broad." I went into his house at the dinner-hour, and found the whole party going to fall to most thankfully upon a roasted herring-gull,... | |
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