 ... like an-y common laborer. Along with his pail he usually carried a book, between which and his solitary meal he would divide his nooning. Once the book chanced to be a volume of Emerson ; and from that time he took with him no other writer.  The Craftsman - Page 7451906Full view - About this book
 | John Townsend Trowbridge - Authors - 1903 - 586 pages
...with his mother; going off to his work in the morning and returning at night, carrying his dinner pail like any common laborer. Along with his pail he usually...from that time he took with him no other writer. His half-formed purpose, his vague aspirations, all that had lain smouldering so long within him, waiting... | |
 | Edward Carpenter - Poets, American - 1908 - 218 pages
...very plain houses for laboring men; as soon as one was finished and sold, beginning another,—houses of two or three rooms. This was in 1854 ; he was then...from that time he took with him no other writer. His half-formed purpose, his vague aspirations, all that had lain smouldering so long within him, waiting... | |
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