 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 626 strani
...Dr. * ' I never saw a population,' says our authoress elsewhere, ' so totally divested of gaiety ; there is no trace of this feeling from one end of the Union to the other. They nave no fetes, no fairs, no merry-making, no music in the streets, no Punch, no puppetshows. If they... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 614 strani
...our authoress elsewhere, ' BO totally divested of gaiety ; there is no trace of this feeling from oue end of the Union to the other. They have no fetes, no fairs, no merry-making, no music in the streets, no Punch, no puppetshows. If they see a comedy or a farce, they... | |
 | 1846 - 670 strani
...another endowment, the Americans are thus described : — " I never saw a population so divested of all gayety : there is no trace of this feeling from one end of the Union to the other." — Mrs. Trollops, p. 171. • " There is not a more imaginative people existing. They... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1845 - 448 strani
...cause, I think, is in the character of the people. / never saw a people so totally dicested of gaiety ; there is no trace of this feeling from one end of the Union to the other, (rather sweeping, we should say, though nearly correct for one who has been only at one... | |
 | 1846 - 668 strani
...another endowment, the Americans are thus described : — " I never saw a population so divested of all gayety : there is no trace of this feeling from one end of the Union to the other." — Mrs. Trollope, p. 171. " There is not a more imaginative people existing. They prefer... | |
 | Rudolf Cronau - 1916 - 240 strani
...famous book "Domestic Manners of the Americans." .Having travelled in this country from 1827 to 1831, she felt herself justified in saying: "I never saw...fairs, no merry-makings, no music in the streets." In confirmation of her own impressions the authoress quotes also the following remarks of another woman:... | |
 | 1916 - 616 strani
...granees íroflope, bic bon 1827 bis 1831 2lmerifa bereifte, über bie barnnliflcn Cuafcr unb Puritaner: "I never saw a population so totally divested of gayety;...from one end of the Union to the other. They have no fêtes, no fairs, no merrymakings, no music in the streets." $t)rer eigenen Í8eobad)tung fügt Mrs.... | |
 | 1922 - 876 strani
...have no concerts. They have no dinner parties. I never saw a population so totally divested of gaiety; there is no trace of this feeling from one end of the Union to the other. They have no ffites, no merry-makings, no music in the streets, no Punch, no puppet-shows. If they see a comedy... | |
 | Newell LeRoy Sims - 1928 - 730 strani
...lived in the Middle West at the beginning of the pioneer period, noted this, and commented as follows: "I never saw a population so totally divested of gayety;...trace of this feeling from one end of the Union to the other. . . . How often did our homely adage recur to me 'all work and no play would make Jack a... | |
 | Neil Harris - 1981 - 351 strani
...elegance, and good humor.18 "I never saw a population so totally divested of gaiety," wrote Mrs. Trollope. "There is no trace of this feeling from one end of...merry-makings, no music in the streets, no Punch, no puppet-shows."19 One explanation for the prevalence of hoaxes in the competitive materialism of American... | |
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I never saw a population so totally divested of gaiety; there is no trace of this feeling from one end of the Union to the other. 
