rural quotes

  And spectral dance, before the dawn, A hundred Vicars down the lawn; Curates, long dust, will come and go On lissom, clerical, printless toe; And oft between the boughs is seen The sly shade of a Rural Dean.

- Rupert Chawner Brooke
  'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester'.

I see the rural virtues leave the land.

- Oliver Goldsmith
  The Deserted Village, l.398.

Ten or twelve, only ten or twelve Strokes of havoc unselve The sweet especial scene Rural scene, a rural scene Sweet especial rural scene.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'Binsey Poplars'.

The two divinest things this world has got, A lovely woman in a rural spot!

- (James Henry) Leigh Hunt
  'The Story of Rimini', canto 3, l.257^8.

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

- Charles Lamb
  Essays of Elia,'Valentine's Day'.