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Country Life: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

God Almighty first planted a Garden.— BACON — Essays. Of Gardens.

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. C.— COWPER — The Task. Bk. I. L. 181.

They love the country, and none else, who seek For their own sake its silence and its shade. Delights which who would leave, that has a heart Susceptible of pity, or a mind Cultured and capable of sober thought.— COWPER — The Task. Bk. III. L. 320.

I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.— WILLIAM HABINGTON — To my Noblest

Friend, I. C. Esquire. Far from the gay cities, and the ways of men.— HOMER — Odyssey. Bk. XIV. L. 410.

Pope's trans. To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, -to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.— KEATS — Sonnet XIV. L. 1.

And as I read I hear the crowing cock, I hear the note Of lark and linnet, and from every page Rise odors of ploughed field or flowery mead. LONGFELLOw-Chaucer. Somewhat back from the village street Stands the old-fashion'd country seat. Across its antique portico Tall poplar-trees their shadows throw; And from its station in the hall An ancient time-piece says to all,- "Forever! never! Never-forever!"— LONGFELLOW — The Old Clock on the Stairs. St. 1.

Mine be a cot beside the hill; A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near.— SAM'L ROGERS — A Wish.