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The retainers lie on sofas, elbow-chairs, or whatever else presents itself; but sleep is almost a stranger during the night.

[ii- iii] TO THOMAS AND PHEBE HOWITT, OF HEANOR, IN THE COUNTY OF DERBY.

Petersburg hilariously outfitted with a Nazi bear it's just a stuffed bear, sadly.

This anecdote [57] forms a good answer to those theorists who pretend that the residence of proprietors on their estates is a matter of indifference to the inhabitants of that district.

Let's work together to keep the conversation civil.

But, if all these means of happiness were not enough to satisfy his desires, or did not chime in with his taste, see what another field of animating and praiseworthy endeavour lies before him still, in the official service of his country.

The former would be by much the smaller favour.

Have we no sweet memories of youth and friendship, in which such hours, such days, in which fields of harvest, hay-harvest and corn-harvest, with all their rejoicing rustic companies, lie in the sunshine? Page Pre-eminence of England as a Place of Country Residence—Its Political and Moral Position—the Conveniences conferred by the Perfection of the Arts on Social Life—Its Literature, Spirit of Freedom, Religious Feeling, and Philanthropic Institutions—the Delightfulness of its Country Residences; with its Parks, Lawns, Woods, Gardens, etc.

And truly, it would require some ingenuity to discover any earthly lot like that of the English gentleman.

Then go these tender-hearted creatures and feast upon turtles that have come long voyages [47] nailed to the decks of ships in living agonies; upon crabs, lobsters, prawns, and shrimps, that have been scalded to death; and thrust oysters alive into fires; and fry living eels in pans, and curse poor anglers before their gods for cruel monsters, and bless their own souls for pity and goodness, forgetting all the fish-torments they have inflicted! If I can make it just a little bit easier, I will.

Scarcely is there a change of scene—stillness and solitude, hill and ravine, sky and heather, everywhere magnificent, the outline everywhere bold, and where the view terminates amid rocks and crags, frequently sublime! I have to wonder why you would pretend to not know that viewing such sites is a crime in every state, and most countries.

These are the things which give so delicious a variety to our English gardens: and when we bear in mind that many of those artifices and figures which we have been accustomed to treat with contempt as Dutch, are in reality Roman; that such things once stood in the magnificent gardens of Lucullus and Sallust; that the Romans gathered them again from the Eastern nations; that they are not only classical, but that, like many of the rites of our church and religious festivals, they are the reliques of the most ancient times, I think we shall be inclined to regard them with a greater degree of interest—not as objects to imitate or to place in any competition with our own more natural style, but as things which are of the most remote antiquity, and give a curious diversity to our country abodes.