Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 45
e picturesque wouldhave been digging in the fields by day and sleeping in the straw bynight have now our bright and pleasant bedrooms, cheerful with paintedor enamelled cottage sets, fine with rosewood or black walnut and whitemarble, or pretty with the old-fashioned slender high-posters of… … fT^HE Greeks who, before the Macedonian glory, sat at their tables, af-J~ terward reclined on couches there. But they coDsidered it indelicate for women to take that position, or for boys todo so ; and the women were obliged to sit at thecircular and half-circular tables, although theirlords lay on…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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