The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 10Houghton, Mifflin, 1893 |
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... writing . If shut up in the house , he did not write at all . He had a strong common sense , like that which Rose Flammock , the weaver's daughter , in Scott's romance , commends in her father , as resembling a yardstick which , whilst ...
... writing . If shut up in the house , he did not write at all . He had a strong common sense , like that which Rose Flammock , the weaver's daughter , in Scott's romance , commends in her father , as resembling a yardstick which , whilst ...
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... a rare class of men , which showed him the material world as a means and symbol . This discovery , which sometimes yields to poets a certain casual and interrupted light , serving for the ornament of their writing , BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 13.
... a rare class of men , which showed him the material world as a means and symbol . This discovery , which sometimes yields to poets a certain casual and interrupted light , serving for the ornament of their writing , BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 13.
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... writing , was in him an unsleeping insight ; and whatever faults or obstructions of temperament might cloud it , he was not disobedient to the hea- venly vision . In his youth , he said , one day , " The other world is all my art : my ...
... writing , was in him an unsleeping insight ; and whatever faults or obstructions of temperament might cloud it , he was not disobedient to the hea- venly vision . In his youth , he said , one day , " The other world is all my art : my ...
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... writing ; and if anything important took place in the Granite State , we might be sure that we should hear of it in good season . No other paper that we know kept pace so well with one forward wave of the restless public thought and ...
... writing ; and if anything important took place in the Granite State , we might be sure that we should hear of it in good season . No other paper that we know kept pace so well with one forward wave of the restless public thought and ...
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... writing , of its great master in these days , Thomas Carlyle . It has a life above grammar , and a meaning which need not be parsed to be understood . But like those same mountain - torrents , there is rather too much slope to his ...
... writing , of its great master in these days , Thomas Carlyle . It has a life above grammar , and a meaning which need not be parsed to be understood . But like those same mountain - torrents , there is rather too much slope to his ...
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Page 135 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...
Page vii - DAUGHTERS of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands. To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all.
Page 149 - Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. The proper place to-day, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less...
Page 26 - I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.
Page 247 - He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Page 31 - The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
Page 235 - Upon the Golden Rule. I pity the poor in bondage that have none to help them: that is why I am here; not to gratify any personal animosity, revenge, or vindictive spirit. It is my sympathy with the oppressed and the wronged, that are as good as you and as precious in the sight of God.
Page 221 - Colonel Washington says that he was the coolest and firmest man he ever saw in defying danger and death. With one son dead by his side, and another shot through, he felt the pulse of his dying son with one hand, and held his rifle with the other, and commanded his men with the utmost composure, encouraging them to be firm, and to sell their lives as dear as they could.
Page 279 - Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are in a sense effaced each morning, or rather rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
Page 151 - ... same purpose, — because they who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time in accumulating property. To such the State renders comparatively small service, and a slight tax is wont to appear exorbitant, particularly if they are obliged to earn it by special labor with their hands. If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich man — not to...