Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Hap...pier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sovran of beauty! like the spray she grows, Compassed she is with thorns and cankered bower.... Yet were she willing to be plucked and worn, She would be gathered, though she grew on thorn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Into thir inmost bower Handed they went; and eas'd the putting off... These troublesom disguises which wee wear, Strait side by side were laid, nor turnd I weene Adam from his fair Spouse, nor Eve the Rites Mysterious of connubial Love refus'd: Whatever Hypocrites austerely talk Of puritie and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to som, leaves free to all. Our Maker bids increase, who bids abstain But our Destroyer, foe to God and Man?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower: The great Emathian conqueror bid spare... The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground; and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The priest and bridegroom wait the bride And dame and knight are there.... They sought her baith by bower and ha The ladie was not seen! She's o'er the Border and awa' Wi' Jock of Hazeldean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penned,... Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, With ravishing division, to her lute.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We had got a loaf of home-made bread, and musk and water melons for dessert. For this farmer, a clever and well-disposed man, cult...ivated a large patch of melons for the Hooksett and Concord markets. He hospitably entertained us the next day, exhibiting his hop-fields and kiln and melon-patch, warning us to step over the tight rope which surrounded the latter at a foot from the ground, while he pointed to a little bower at one corner, where it connected with the lock of a gun ranging with the line, and where, he informed us, he sometimes sat in pleasant nights to defend his premises against thieves. We stepped high over the line, and sympathized with our host's on the whole quite human, if not humane, interest in the success of his experiment. That night especially thieves were to be expected, from rumors in the atmosphere, and the priming was not wet. He was a Methodist man, who had his dwelling between the river and Uncannunuc Mountain; who there belonged, and stayed at home there, and by the encouragement of distant political organizations, and by his own tenacity, held a property in his melons, and continued to plant. We suggested melon seeds of new varieties and fruit of foreign flavor to be added to his stock. We had come away up here among the hills to learn the impartial and unbribable influence of Nature. Strawberries and melons grew as well in one man's garden as another's, and the sun lodges as kindly under his hillside,--when we had imagined that she inclined rather to some few earnest and faithful souls whom we know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influence... which flowers exert, no less upon the ditcher in the meadow than the lady in the bower. When I walk in the woods, I am reminded that a wise purveyor has been there before me; my most delicate experience is typified there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adam and Eve, according to the fable, wore the bower before other clothes. Man wanted a home, a place of warmth, or comfort, first... of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »