A Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiversCosimo, Inc., 01/01/2009 - 268 páginas Hero to environmentalists and ecologists, and a profound thinker on humanity's happiness, Henry David Thoreau was one of the strongest shapers of the American character in the 19th century. This 1849 book, written while Thoreau was living at Walden Pond, is ostensibly a travel book, written to commemorate an 1839 river journey he took with his brother, John, from Massachusetts to New Hampshire. But the trip is only the framework upon which Thoreau hangs some of his most provocative thoughts on poetry, history, religion, dreams, and the passing of a slower way of life with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the evidence of which he witnessed from the rivers. While not Thoreau's best-known work, *A Week* may be his most important, a beautifully determined attempt to understand the past and reconcile it with the future that continues to move readers today. Writer and philosopher HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard University. His writings on human nature, materialism, and the natural world rank him among the most influential thinkers of American literature. |
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... beauty , and some of the brighter flowers showed by their faded tints that the season was verging towards the afternoon of the year ; but this sombre tinge enhanced their sincerity , and in the still unabated heats they seemed like a ...
... beauty , and some of the brighter flowers showed by their faded tints that the season was verging towards the afternoon of the year ; but this sombre tinge enhanced their sincerity , and in the still unabated heats they seemed like a ...
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... beauty and accuracy of language , the most perfect art in the world ; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it . At length the antepenultimate and drowsy hours drew on , and all sounds were denied entrance to our ears . Who sleeps by ...
... beauty and accuracy of language , the most perfect art in the world ; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it . At length the antepenultimate and drowsy hours drew on , and all sounds were denied entrance to our ears . Who sleeps by ...
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... beauty which are English , and love to hear the sound of such sweet and classical names as the Pentland and Malvern Hills , the Cliffs of Dover and the Trossacks , Richmond , Derwent , and Winandermere , which are to him now instead of ...
... beauty which are English , and love to hear the sound of such sweet and classical names as the Pentland and Malvern Hills , the Cliffs of Dover and the Trossacks , Richmond , Derwent , and Winandermere , which are to him now instead of ...
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... beauty , consider the fables of Narcissus , of Endymion , of Memnon son of Morning , the representa- tive of all promising youths who have died a premature death , and whose memory is melodiously prolonged to the latest morning ; the ...
... beauty , consider the fables of Narcissus , of Endymion , of Memnon son of Morning , the representa- tive of all promising youths who have died a premature death , and whose memory is melodiously prolonged to the latest morning ; the ...
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... beauty or the truth . By a faint and dream - like effort , though it be only by the vote of a scientific body , the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus . As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune ...
... beauty or the truth . By a faint and dream - like effort , though it be only by the vote of a scientific body , the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus . As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune ...
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