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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... passed o'er , And solitary left the shore . Anon a youthful pastor came , Whose crook was not unknown to fame , His lambs he viewed with gentle glance , Spread o'er the country's wide expanse , And fed with " Mosses from the Manse ...
... passed o'er , And solitary left the shore . Anon a youthful pastor came , Whose crook was not unknown to fame , His lambs he viewed with gentle glance , Spread o'er the country's wide expanse , And fed with " Mosses from the Manse ...
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... passed the height of their 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 ...
... passed the height of their 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 ...
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... passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole , its silvery bark left on , and a dog at his side , rowing so near as to agitate his cork with our oars , and drive away luck for a sea- son ; and when we had rowed a mile as ...
... passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole , its silvery bark left on , and a dog at his side , rowing so near as to agitate his cork with our oars , and drive away luck for a sea- son ; and when we had rowed a mile as ...
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... passed the period of communication with his fellows ; his old experienced coat hanging long and straight and brown as the yellow pine bark , glittering with so much smothered sunlight , if you stood near enough , no work of art but ...
... passed the period of communication with his fellows ; his old experienced coat hanging long and straight and brown as the yellow pine bark , glittering with so much smothered sunlight , if you stood near enough , no work of art but ...
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... passed its life beneath the level of your feet in your native field . Fishes , too , as well as birds and clouds , derive their armor from the mine . I have heard of mackerel visiting the copper banks at a particular season ; this fish ...
... passed its life beneath the level of your feet in your native field . Fishes , too , as well as birds and clouds , derive their armor from the mine . I have heard of mackerel visiting the copper banks at a particular season ; this fish ...
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