"We landed at the Ferry House, and struck off into the woods full of globe flowers by the lake side, and of yellow poppies by the wood wall; of hyacinths beneath the trees; of the curved crozier heads of the sprouting bracken; of young foxglove spathes, thick, downy, and as yet flowerless; of tufts of mountain fern like Indians' head-dresses; of trailing brambles and yet more delicate sprays of wild-raspberry; of bird's-eye, blue and lustrous, of violets and wood-sorrel; of lady's-mantles, green, gold-spotted; of delicate wind-flowers and starry stitchwort,—full of all manner of sweet wood-flowers; and then, returning, we saw two large carts and two large horses put into the ferry-boat, which a man nearly as large rowed leisurely across, according to the mode and manner of the place."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Novelists from EnglandEssayists from EnglandWomen authors from EnglandWomen born in the 19th centuryVictorian novelists
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eliza_Lynn_Linton
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Eliza Lynn Linton
Eliza Lynn Linton (10 February 1822 – 14 July 1898) was an English journalist and novelist, known as the first woman to be a salaried journalist in the UK.
3 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Eliza Lynn Linton →
Related Quotes
"In re-reading these pages I am now more than ever convinced that I have struck the right chord of condemnation, and a…"
"In her early writings in the 1840s and 1850s she had been an ardent supporter of women's rights and even free love, a…"
"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"
"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."
"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."
"The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to…"
"Piety in art—poetry in art—Puseyism in art—let us be careful how we confound them."
"He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not fo…"
"Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the v…"
"Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose…"