Henry D. ThoreauHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 324 páginas |
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... perhaps more , I will close , with kind wishes for health and happiness . Yours respectfully , MARIA THOREAU . ” - It would be hard to compress more fam- ily history into a short letter , and yet leave it so sprightly in style as this ...
... perhaps more , I will close , with kind wishes for health and happiness . Yours respectfully , MARIA THOREAU . ” - It would be hard to compress more fam- ily history into a short letter , and yet leave it so sprightly in style as this ...
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... perhaps on the way to visit her relatives in Weston , and think- ing , as he said afterward , that he should like to live there . Ellery Channing , whose life of his friend Henry is a mine of curious information on a thousand topics ...
... perhaps on the way to visit her relatives in Weston , and think- ing , as he said afterward , that he should like to live there . Ellery Channing , whose life of his friend Henry is a mine of curious information on a thousand topics ...
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... perhaps a mile from Thoreau's grave in the village cemetery , is a by - path from Concord to Lexington , through the little town of Bed- ford . The farm - house , with its fields and orchard , was a part of Mrs. Minott's " wid- ow's ...
... perhaps a mile from Thoreau's grave in the village cemetery , is a by - path from Concord to Lexington , through the little town of Bed- ford . The farm - house , with its fields and orchard , was a part of Mrs. Minott's " wid- ow's ...
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... perhaps been educated in part at Boscawen , where Webster studied for college , and af- terwards was a school - teacher there . She received from him those attentions which young men give to young ladies without any very active thoughts ...
... perhaps been educated in part at Boscawen , where Webster studied for college , and af- terwards was a school - teacher there . She received from him those attentions which young men give to young ladies without any very active thoughts ...
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... , wearing bonnet - ribbons of a good length and of a bright color , perhaps yellow . During the call , in which Henry Thoreau was the sub- - ject of conversation , Miss Emerson kept her eyes shut BIRTH AND FAMILY . 19.
... , wearing bonnet - ribbons of a good length and of a bright color , perhaps yellow . During the call , in which Henry Thoreau was the sub- - ject of conversation , Miss Emerson kept her eyes shut BIRTH AND FAMILY . 19.
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Página 316 - Flattered to tears this aged man and poor; But no - already had his deathbell rung: The joys of all his life were said and sung: His was harsh penance on St Agnes
Página 269 - But now he's gone aloft. Tom never from his word departed, His virtues were so rare; His friends were many and true-hearted, His Poll was kind and fair: And then he'd sing so blithe and jolly; Ah, many's the time and oft! But mirth is turned to melancholy, For Tom is gone aloft.
Página 146 - This is a good man ; here is nothing for me;" but when his master came to the prayer of the publican, " God be merciful to me a sinner...
Página 213 - My purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there, but to transact some private business with the fewest obstacles...
Página 128 - She will sometimes go about from place to place, singing sweetly; and seems to be always full of joy and pleasure; and no one knows for what. She loves to be alone, walking in the fields and groves, and seems to have some one invisible always conversing with her.
Página 181 - Together both, ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the morn...
Página 203 - Dives inaccessos ubi Solis filia lucos Assiduo resonat cantu, tectisque superbis Urit odoratam nocturna in lumina cedrum, Arguto tenues percurrens pectine telas.
Página 246 - He saw beneath dim aisles, in odorous beds, The slight Linnaea hang its twin-born heads, And blessed the monument of the man of flowers, Which breathes his sweet fame through the northern bowers. He heard, when in the grove, at intervals, With sudden roar the aged pine-tree falls, — One crash, the death-hymn of the perfect tree, Declares the close of its green century.
Página 208 - ... and the dilapidated fences, which put such an interval between me and the last occupant; the hollow and lichencovered apple trees, gnawed by rabbits, showing what kind of neighbors I should have; but above all, the recollection I had of it from my earliest voyages up the river, when the house was concealed behind a dense grove of red maples, through which I heard the house-dog bark.
Página 205 - God wills us free, Man wills us slaves, I will as God wills : God's will be done. Here lies the body of JOHN JACK, A native of Africa, who died March, 1773, aged about sixty years.