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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Henry David Thoreau. I am bound , I am bound , for a distant shore , By a lonely isle , by a far Azore , There it is , there it is , the treasure I seek , On the barren sands of a desolate creek . I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind ,
Henry David Thoreau. I am bound , I am bound , for a distant shore , By a lonely isle , by a far Azore , There it is , there it is , the treasure I seek , On the barren sands of a desolate creek . I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind ,
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... dangers were there to be feared ; But when I remember where I have been , And the fair landscapes that I have seen , THOU seemest the only permanent shore , The cape never rounded , nor wandered o'er . 1 6 24 73 114 . 152 194 217 CONCORD.
... dangers were there to be feared ; But when I remember where I have been , And the fair landscapes that I have seen , THOU seemest the only permanent shore , The cape never rounded , nor wandered o'er . 1 6 24 73 114 . 152 194 217 CONCORD.
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... shore , which rises gently to a considerable height , command fine water prospects at this season . The shore is more flat on the Wayland side , and this town is the greatest loser by the flood . Its farmers tell me that thousands of ...
... shore , which rises gently to a considerable height , command fine water prospects at this season . The shore is more flat on the Wayland side , and this town is the greatest loser by the flood . Its farmers tell me that thousands of ...
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... shores , with guns at half cock , and they shall see teal , blue - winged , green - winged , shelldrakes , whistlers , black ducks , ospreys , and many other wild and noble sights before night , such as they who sit in parlors never ...
... shores , with guns at half cock , and they shall see teal , blue - winged , green - winged , shelldrakes , whistlers , black ducks , ospreys , and many other wild and noble sights before night , such as they who sit in parlors never ...
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... shore at least exempted from all duties but such as an honest man will gladly discharge . A warm drizzling rain had obscured the morning , and threatened to delay our voyage , but at length the leaves and grass were dried , and it came ...
... shore at least exempted from all duties but such as an honest man will gladly discharge . A warm drizzling rain had obscured the morning , and threatened to delay our voyage , but at length the leaves and grass were dried , and it came ...
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