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Our fathers knew the value of a screen From sultry suns, and in their shaded walks And long-protracted bowers enjoyed at noon The gloom and coolness of declining day. We bear our shades about us: self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree. Such a passage as this shews that Johnson was not so insensible to nature as is often asserted. Mrs.
After twenty minutes' conversation, I re-entered my own room, self-deprived of the means of living, self-sentenced to leave my present home, with the short notice of a week in which to provide another.
"We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree." B. i. And again: "Expect her soon, with footboy at her heels, No longer blushing for her awkward load, Her train and her umbrella all her care." B. iv, The Rev.
He despised the little brawls aired in the papers, the bickerings of politics, the fights and strikes and broils of all humanity reflected in daily mirrors. Self-deprived of the newspapers, it was natural that he should fall to watching the people on the cars. He got to studying faces.
But while they, self-deprived of light, grope like blind men along a wall, and fall into many a ditch, and scratch out their eyes on many a bramble bush, the sun, firmly established on his own glory, shall illuminate them that gaze upon his beams with unveiled face. Even so shineth the light of Christ on all men abundantly, imparting to us of his lustre.
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