The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes. In Ten Volumes, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1893 |
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... least risk to themselves ; but Wiley & Putnam will print it in their series , and any of them anywhere , at my risk . If I liked the book well enough , I should not delay ; but for the present I am indifferent . I believe this is ...
... least risk to themselves ; but Wiley & Putnam will print it in their series , and any of them anywhere , at my risk . If I liked the book well enough , I should not delay ; but for the present I am indifferent . I believe this is ...
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... 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 voy- age , but at length the leaves and grass were dried , and it came out a ...
... 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 voy- age , but at length the leaves and grass were dried , and it came out a ...
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... least celestial 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 ...
... least celestial 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 ...
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... least minnow that lies on the ice as bait for pickerel looks like a huge sea- fish cast up on the shore . In the waters of this town there are about a dozen distinct spe- cies , though the inexperienced would expect many more . 0 It It ...
... least minnow that lies on the ice as bait for pickerel looks like a huge sea- fish cast up on the shore . In the waters of this town there are about a dozen distinct spe- cies , though the inexperienced would expect many more . 0 It It ...
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... least one memento of those days may still exist in the memory of this generation , in the familiar appellation of a celebrated train - band of this town , whose untrained ancestors stood credita- bly at Concord North Bridge . Their ...
... least one memento of those days may still exist in the memory of this generation , in the familiar appellation of a celebrated train - band of this town , whose untrained ancestors stood credita- bly at Concord North Bridge . Their ...
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Anacreon ancient bank beauty Billerica birds bittern boat Brook Chaucer clouds Concord Concord River distant dreams Dunstable earth English faint fair falls feet fish floating flowers FRANCIS QUARLES freshet Friend Friendship genius GILES FLETCHER Goffstown grass ground haste Haverhill hear heard heavens hills Homer Hooksett imagination Indian inhabitants island JOHN GOWER land leaves length light lives look lyre man's meadow Merrimack MERRIMACK RIVERS miles morning mountains Nashua nature neighboring never night noon Ossian passed Penacook perchance PINDAR pine poet poetry rare river rocks rustling sail Salmon Brook SAMUEL DANIEL sand seemed seen serene shore side silent sometimes sound speak stand stars stone stream summer thee things thou thought tion town trees true truth ture Tyngsborough voyage waves wild WILLIAM HABINGTON wind woods words
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Página 502 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Página 18 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set today a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Página 92 - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Página 160 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Página 460 - I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.
Página 233 - Camelot ; And up and down the people go, Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below, The island of Shalott. Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver Thro...
Página 130 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refined with th
Página 60 - A man that looks on glass, On it may stay his eye ; Or if he pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heaven espy. All may of Thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture (for Thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and th
Página 231 - As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns.
Página 392 - And more to lulle him in his slumber soft, A trickling streame from high rock tumbling downe, And ever-drizling raine upon the loft, Mixt with a murmuring winde, much like the sowne Of swarming Bees, did cast him in a swowne. No other noyse, nor peoples troublous cryes, As still are wont t...