Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Sidor ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
288 SKETCHES.
WINDOW PICTURES.
MY WINDOW, 1825.
THE VISITOR.
Wuar a pity it is that the whole world should know so
well what a window is! Otherwise an account of one might
have afforded me a subject for very curious descriptions.
I will therefore now merely notice, what the whole world
has not so very carefully observed, namely, all the advanta-
ges which this valuable contrivance, the Window, presents to
man, and more especially to us towns-people in the winter
season, when, in order not to perish from cold, we are
doomed, like the bear, to spend most of our time in our
warm lair. In grateful remembrance hereof, I have drawn
up the following memorial relating to these advantages,
namely : —
1st. A prospect of the earth.
2d. A view of the sky.
3d. A survey of our own and other people’s business.
4th. An insight into daily life.
Sth. An inducement to meditation.
6th. Light during day.
7th. Air whenever we wish for it.
8th. A place of refuge from the hydra of civilized every-
day life; that hydra, which causes the Frenchman to com-
mit “ sottises,” the Englishman to hang himself, the German
to write narcotic books, the Swede to drink or play at cards,
and the whole world to yawn; which fastens lead to Time’s
wings and makes minutes eternal; that hydra, at whose
door one may well lay half of all the evil which is practiced
in the world, which almost everybody knows and every-
body dreads —in a word — ennui.
How gladly would we not turn it out of the house, throw
it out of the window, slay, annihilate it. But it is immor-
tal here upon earth, like enjoyment and pain, and makes
its appearance in their absence like a tiresome “ dame de
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
