 | Havelock Ellis - 1890 - 268 Seiten
...day is a festival," said Diogenes, andMetrocles rejoiced that he was happier than the Persian king. " I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself," said Thoreau, " than be crowded on a velvet cushion." " Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like... | |
 | 1921 - 558 Seiten
...sincerity, its unflinching truth. It is faithfully idiosyncratic, the mirror of his sincerity of character. "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion" — who but Thoreau could have written that? Speaking of the art of writing, Thoreau leans upon that... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 Seiten
...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 Empire, which Jonathan should be ashamed~to-kn6w the names of. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and / have it all to myself than be crowded... | |
 | 1897 - 698 Seiten
...an inward chuckle, of his success in outwitting civilization. " I would rather," he says, ""sit ou a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion." Here he had his pumpkin and fairly hugged it. The cairn of stones that now marks the supposed site... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1899 - 386 Seiten
...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... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - 1900 - 58 Seiten
...accomplished. He fought in the open, single-handed and alone. When Thoreau expressed the sentiment " I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your old clothes."... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 268 Seiten
...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...should be ashamed to know the names of. I would rather sitojLa^pumpkin and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 418 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 428 Seiten
...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...Empire, which Jonathan should be ashamed to know the ^ L names of. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it _ ~i all to myself than be crowded on a velvet... | |
 | George Waldo Broune - 1907 - 386 Seiten
...each? He was not inclined to associate in mixed company to any extent, remarking at one time, "I had rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet chair." Yet he was a brilliant conversationalist when the company was congenial... | |
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. 
