The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes. In Ten Volumes, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1893 |
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... standing in water all the year round . For a long time , they made the most of the driest season to get their hay , working sometimes till nine o'clock at night , sedulously paring with their scythes in the twilight round the hummocks ...
... standing in water all the year round . For a long time , they made the most of the driest season to get their hay , working sometimes till nine o'clock at night , sedulously paring with their scythes in the twilight round the hummocks ...
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... stand all around the alders , and birches , and oaks , and maples full of glee and sap , holding in their buds until the waters subside . You shall perhaps run aground on Cranberry Island , only some spires of last year's pipe - grass ...
... stand all around the alders , and birches , and oaks , and maples full of glee and sap , holding in their buds until the waters subside . You shall perhaps run aground on Cranberry Island , only some spires of last year's pipe - grass ...
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... standing next in the list after pas- turage and unimproved lands , and , judging from the returns of previous years , the meadow is not reclaimed so fast as the woods are cleared . Let us here read what old Johnson says of these meadows ...
... standing next in the list after pas- turage and unimproved lands , and , judging from the returns of previous years , the meadow is not reclaimed so fast as the woods are cleared . Let us here read what old Johnson says of these meadows ...
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... stand By no Laconian rill . With such thoughts we swept gently by this now peaceful pasture - ground , on waves of Con- cord , in which was long since drowned the din of war . But since we sailed Some things have failed , And many a ...
... stand By no Laconian rill . With such thoughts we swept gently by this now peaceful pasture - ground , on waves of Con- cord , in which was long since drowned the din of war . But since we sailed Some things have failed , And many a ...
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... stand abiding his luck , till he took his way home through the fields at evening with his fish . Thus , by one bait or another , Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses . This man was the last of our townsmen whom we saw , and ...
... stand abiding his luck , till he took his way home through the fields at evening with his fish . Thus , by one bait or another , Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses . This man was the last of our townsmen whom we saw , and ...
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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...