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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... waves of Concord , in which was long since drowned the din of war . But since we sailed Some things have failed , And many a dream Gone down the stream . Here then an aged shepherd dwelt , Who to his 8 Henry David Thoreau.
... waves of Concord , in which was long since drowned the din of war . But since we sailed Some things have failed , And many a dream Gone down the stream . Here then an aged shepherd dwelt , Who to his 8 Henry David Thoreau.
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... thing heard of but not seen , as if it were the instant creation of an eddy , a true product of the running stream . And this bright cupreous dolphin was spawned and has passed its life beneath the level of your feet in your native ...
... thing heard of but not seen , as if it were the instant creation of an eddy , a true product of the running stream . And this bright cupreous dolphin was spawned and has passed its life beneath the level of your feet in your native ...
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... things had gone down stream , swinging a scythe in the meadow , his bottle like a serpent hid in the grass ; himself as yet not cut down by the Great Mower . Surely the fates are forever kind , though Nature's laws are more immutable ...
... things had gone down stream , swinging a scythe in the meadow , his bottle like a serpent hid in the grass ; himself as yet not cut down by the Great Mower . Surely the fates are forever kind , though Nature's laws are more immutable ...
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... things or per- sons . On this same stream a maiden once sailed in my boat , thus unat- tended but by invisible guardians , and as she sat in the prow there was nothing but herself between the steersman and the sky . I could then say ...
... things or per- sons . On this same stream a maiden once sailed in my boat , thus unat- tended but by invisible guardians , and as she sat in the prow there was nothing but herself between the steersman and the sky . I could then say ...
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... things were said . Believe the thrushes sung , And that the flower bells rung , That herbs exhaled their scent , And beasts knew what was meant , The trees a welcome waved , And lakes their margins laved , When thy free mind To my ...
... things were said . Believe the thrushes sung , And that the flower bells rung , That herbs exhaled their scent , And beasts knew what was meant , The trees a welcome waved , And lakes their margins laved , When thy free mind To my ...
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