 | Anne MacVicar Grant - 1836 - 364 páginas
...shoulder, to her garden labours. These were by no means figurative, " -From morn till noon, from noon till dewy eve." A woman, in very easy circumstances, and...Paradise." These, though not set in " curious knots," were arranged in beds, the varieties of each kind by themselves ; this, if not varied and elegant, was at... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - 1844 - 492 páginas
...shoulders, to her garden labors. These were by no means figurative ; ' From room till noon, from noon till dewy eve/ a woman in very easy circumstances and abundantly...plant, and rake, incessantly." These fair gardeners (we are also told) were likewise good florists, and displayed much emulation and solicitude in their... | |
 | Anne MacVicar Grant - 1846 - 324 páginas
...her garden labors. These were by no means merely figurative, " From morn till noon, from noon till dewy eve," a woman, in very easy circumstances, and...plant, and rake, incessantly. These fair gardeners were also great florists ; their emulation and solicitude in this pleasing employment, did indeed produce... | |
 | Alice Morse Earle, Emily Ellsworth Fowler Ford - 1893 - 238 páginas
...calash, her little painted basket of seeds, and her rako over her shoulders to her garden of labours. A woman in very easy circumstances and abundantly...incessantly. These fair gardeners too were great florists. Mrs. Grant writes thus of her own education : The year 1762 came and found me at Albany; if not wiser,... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1896 - 912 páginas
...calash, her little painted basket of seeds, and her rake over her shoulders, to her garden of labours. A woman in very easy circumstances and abundantly...manners would sow and plant and rake incessantly." Anne Eliza Bleecker also mites of the delights of her garden, near Albany. Some of the stiffly laid-out... | |
 | Alice Morse Earle - 1898 - 550 páginas
...calash, her little painted basket of seeds, and her rake over her shoulders, to her garden of labours. A woman in very easy circumstances and abundantly...manners would sow and plant and rake incessantly." In New York, before the Revolution, were many 440 Old Garden, Ellenviile, New York beautiful gardens,... | |
 | Jennie Day Haines - 1906 - 96 páginas
...calash, her little painted basket of seeds, and her rake over her shoulder to her garden of labours. A woman in very easy circumstances and abundantly...manners would sow and plant and rake incessantly." Good huswives provide, ere an sickness do come, Of sundrie good things in house to have some: Good... | |
 | Grace Tabor - 1913 - 362 páginas
...and her robe over her shoulders, to her garden labours. These were by no means merely figurative. ... A woman, in very easy circumstances and abundantly...and plant and rake incessantly. These fair gardeners were also great florists: their emulation and solicitude in this pleasing employment did indeed produce... | |
 | Arthur Wallace Calhoun - 1917 - 356 páginas
...experienced lack of servants; so wife and daughters performed the work of house and dairy. Mrs. Grant says: "A woman in very easy circumstances, and abundantly...manners, would sow, and plant, and rake incessantly." Home was home. Irving says: "Dinner was invariably a private meal, and the fat old burghers showed... | |
 | Carl Holliday - 1922 - 350 páginas
...calash, her little painted basket of seeds, and her rake over her shoulder to her garden labors. ... A woman in very easy circumstances and abundantly gentle in form and manner would sow and plant and rake incessantly. These fair gardners were also great florists."60 Doubtless... | |
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... town and country, a respectable mistress of a family going out to her garden, in an April morning, with her great calash, her little painted basket of seeds, and her rake over her shoulder, to her garden labours. 
