 | American literature - 1854 - 704 pages
...threatens, without attaining these, to become no better than a modern drawing-room, with fts divans, add ottomans, and sunshades, and a hundred other oriental...myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would ralher ride on earth in an ox-cart with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 712 pages
...ottomans, and sunshades, and a hundred other oriental things, •which we are taking west with ns, invented for the the ladies of harem and the effeminate...have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet coshion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox-cart with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the... | |
 | Agriculture - 1862 - 588 pages
...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 - American literature - 1897 - 1172 pages
...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... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - Canada - 1881 - 774 pages
...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 - Authors, American - 1882 - 278 pages
...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...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 excursion train and breathe... | |
 | George Stewart - 1882 - 44 pages
...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... | |
 | 1884 - 328 pages
...yourself; for you show me what your idea of manhood is, what kind of man you long to be.—Carlyle. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.— VOLUME 1. NUMBER 8. J\T 'THE n I 1 .v\3 HAWAIIAN MONTHLY. LITERATURE,... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...before the great pyramid was built was not inferior to the best of the present day. EDWARD EVEUETT. I WOULD rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. TWO PICTURES. . old farm-house with meadows wide And sweet with... | |
 | Julia B. Hoitt - Quotations, English - 1890 - 426 pages
...longitudes. Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand. I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. You cannot dream yourself into a character : you must hammer and... | |
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. 
