 I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms...  Education - Page 4501921Full view - About this book
 | 1877 - 832 pages
...necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike ns to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad...lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to gat the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meaness to the world ; or if it were sublime,... | |
 | Havelock Ellis - 1890 - 268 pages
...resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to...into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms." So he went into Walden Woods and built himself a hut, and sowed beans, and grew strangely familiar... | |
 | 1903 - 696 pages
...could not learn what it had to teach — I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to...rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and cut close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be... | |
 | Peter Anderson Graham - 1891 - 238 pages
...narrowest compass, or as he himself puts it, ' I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swathe and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and if it be... | |
 | 1891 - 424 pages
...wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrovv of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like äs to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad...to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its Iowest teruis, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine uieanness of it,... | |
 | 1900 - 874 pages
...die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted to live deep, and suck out all the marrow of life; to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout...into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms," &c. And this he did, with great advantage to himself and to all those who ponder over his sage reflections.... | |
 | 1900 - 636 pages
...I wanted to live deep, and suck out all the marrow of life ; to live so sturdily and Spartan -like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a...into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms," &c. And this he did, with great advantage to himself and to all those who ponder over his sage reflections.... | |
 | 1902 - 642 pages
...live what was not life, living is so dear. I wanted to live deep, and suck out all the marrow of life. To live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to...and reduce it to its lowest terms, and if it proved mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish it to the world ; or if it... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 268 pages
...resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swatli and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 506 pages
...resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, and to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its. lowest... | |
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