Modern dwellings in town and country adapted to American wants and climate with a treatise on furniture and decoration (1878)
Holly, Henry Hudson, 1834-1892 · New York, Harper & brothers, publishers · leaf 35
d thatadversity is not without its sweetness. Knowing that if they remain intown, they must assume a position inferior to their station or custom,they will turn to the country as affording a congenial home. Here, withtrue taste and sound judgment, they will build a cottage, which, thoughsmall in… … Design No. 2. and a consolation full of gentleness and peace. Other associations, dearas those of old, will cluster around them, and they will find, as in thetouching description of the Wife in Irvings Sketch Book, that theyhave no desire to return to the noise and bustle, the whirl and…
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