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More than one villager approaches me during the few minutes I am engaged in eating dinner, and blandly asks me to quit eating and let him see me ride; one of them, with a view of putting it out of my power to refuse, supplements his request with a few green apples which no European could eat without bringing on an attack of cholera morbus, but which Asiatics consume with impunity.
He remembered it as a path that was quite easy to traverse either up or down. But Old Pipes had been a very active man, and as his mother was so much older than he was, he never thought of himself as aged and infirm. When the Chief Villager had paid him, and he had talked a little with some of his friends, Old Pipes started to go home.
In fact, in the woman there is something non-peasant in its origin. For instance, let one but watch her sharply clicking feet as, in walking, they peep from under her blue skirt, and one will perceive that they are not the splayed feet of a villager, but, rather, feet arched of instep, and at one time accustomed to the wearing of boots.
We may be as unaware of the existence of those beings or of their having feelings towards us as the Indian villager is of the existence of the Cabinet in London or of the Cabinet's feelings towards him. But these stellar beings may be exerting their influence all the same. And it may be because of this influence that we men are able to see Beauty which escapes the eye of the eagle.
He knew enough of English to find that the singing was hopeful and triumphant. Wearied with philosophy and blasé with the pomp of the world, he wished that he had been a villager in New Geneva, and that he might have had the faith to sing of the " land of pure delight Where saints immortal reign," with as much earnestness as his friend Priscilla on the other side of the aisle.
The Salisbury of the villager The cathedral from the meadows Walks to Wilton and Old Sarum The spire and a rainbow Charm of Old Sarum The devastation Salisbury from Old Sarum Leland's description Salisbury and the village mind Market-day The infirmary The cathedral The lesson of a child's desire In the streets again An Apollo of the downs
"A peasant, a villager," said Don Ambrogio. "I put it to you as an observer of life," said John, "do peasants, do villagers, wear diaphanous garments?" "A visitor, a sight-seer, from some place on the lake," said Don Ambrogio.
As there are gradations in height from the plains to the outlying spurs of the Himalaya, and from these again to the higher ridges, and from these on to the great mountains, and finally to Kinchinjunga and Mount Everest; and as there are gradations in size from tiny plants to the giant trees; so there are gradations in worth and value from the simple lichen or moss to the highly complex orchid; from the microscopic animalculae of a stagnant pond to monkeys and men; from simple primitive men to the highly cultured Bengali; and from the simple Bengali villager to the poet Rabindranath Tagore.
The reading Londoner is thus in constant contact with the publisher, as much as if the publisher spoke to him across the breakfast table. But the villager has never heard the publisher's name; the villager never sees a literary review; he has never heard, or, if so, so casually as not to remember, the name of any literary paper describing books.
The candour of boyhood, the simplicity of the villager, were still there, refined by intelligence, but intelligence that seemed to have traversed through knowledge, not with the 'footstep, but the wing, unsullied by the mire, tending towards the star, seeking through the various grades of Being but the lovelier forms of truth and goodness; at home, as should be the Art that consummates the Beautiful,
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