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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... sound estate they ever mend , To every asker readily lend ; To the ocean wealth , To the meadow health , To Time his length , To the rocks strength , To the stars light , To the weary night , To the busy day , To the idle play ; A Week ...
... sound estate they ever mend , To every asker readily lend ; To the ocean wealth , To the meadow health , To Time his length , To the rocks strength , To the stars light , To the weary night , To the busy day , To the idle play ; A Week ...
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... sound , Or faintest light that falls on earthly ground , If he could know it one day would be found That star in Cygnus whither we are bound , And pale our sun with heavenly radiance round ? Gradually the village murmur subsided , and ...
... sound , Or faintest light that falls on earthly ground , If he could know it one day would be found That star in Cygnus whither we are bound , And pale our sun with heavenly radiance round ? Gradually the village murmur subsided , and ...
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... sound which near at hand broke the stillness of the night , each crackling of the twigs , or rustling among the leaves , there was a sudden pause , and deeper and more con- scious silence , as if the intruder were aware that no life was ...
... sound which near at hand broke the stillness of the night , each crackling of the twigs , or rustling among the leaves , there was a sudden pause , and deeper and more con- scious silence , as if the intruder were aware that no life was ...
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... sounds , the crowing of cocks , the baying of dogs , and the hum of insects at noon , are the evidence of nature's health or sound state . Such is the never failing beauty and accuracy of language , the most perfect art in the world ...
... sounds , the crowing of cocks , the baying of dogs , and the hum of insects at noon , are the evidence of nature's health or sound state . Such is the never failing beauty and accuracy of language , the most perfect art in the world ...
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... sound . Dong , sounds the brass in the east , As if to a funeral feast , But I like that sound the best Out of the fluttering west . The steeple ringeth a knell , But the fairies ' silvery bell Is the voice of that gentle folk , Or else ...
... sound . Dong , sounds the brass in the east , As if to a funeral feast , But I like that sound the best Out of the fluttering west . The steeple ringeth a knell , But the fairies ' silvery bell Is the voice of that gentle folk , Or else ...
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