A Discourse on Door Knockers E-Book

Yadessac

• Herausgeber: Full Well Ventures
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

This article, "A Discourse on Door-Knockers," from the September 1853 issue of The Knickerbocker magazine, makes various points about the popular attachment to the front door. 

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A Discourse on Door-Knockers

© 2020 Full Well Ventures

Originally published in September 1853 issue of “The Knickerbocker” magazine

KNICKERBOCKER

A Discourse on Door-Knockers

With an Antiquary’s Account of the Introduction of Doors.

AMID THE shiftings and annihilations of revolution, political and economical, whether issuing from Gallic illuminist or Scotch inventor, the desuetude of whilom familiar objects, insignificant in themselves, but around which cluster our pleasant memories, occasions a pensive regret, which your men on stilts, with much conceit of self-importance, contemptuously regard as trivial, but which really results from a disturbance of the harmony of the series (contributing so much of human happiness) of inanimate attachments. They constitute the scenery which marks the progress of this life drama, and fixes in our remembrance its successions of action. As intimately associated with the rudest household utensil may be the being, the thought, the pleasure, and the pain of our retrospect, as is the moss with the rock, or the tendril with the twig. The cradle, scarred and rickety, bestowed in an obscure corner of the cheerless garret, troops upon us the hilarious sports, the solemn mimicries, the joys and spites of the nursery. How vividly in after life do our first razor and shaving brush (cherish them, O ye men of whiskers!) recall the flush of conscious expansion, the unutterable complacency with which we surveyed the dawning of hirsute promise! What a glowing picture may be summoned by the contents of an old workbox! The cheerful fireside, the animatingly lighted room, the heart-gushing vivacity of kindly converse, the venerated features impressed with benevolence, the busy fingers that have long since ceased to ply the polished needle.