I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates, suggesting a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not recognized. They represent... The Woods and by-ways of New England - Página 405por Wilson Flagg - 1872 - 442 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Sullivan Dwight - 1855 - 428 páginas
...it suggested only pleasing associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls, Let them do the idiotic and maniacal...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savasie swamp, where the single spruce stands hung... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 páginas
...burden, in a sense, made to carry some portion of our thoughts." He rejoices in the hootings of owls : "It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have." By art and by sympathy he gained a close acquaintance with these poor relations of Humanity ; and his... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1878 - 510 páginas
...it suggested only pleasing associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung... | |
| 1880 - 516 páginas
...it suggested only pleasing associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 páginas
...associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let_them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung... | |
| 1891 - 432 páginas
...it suggested only pleasing associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 550 páginas
...it suggested only pleasing associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 páginas
...suggested only pleasing associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or •winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung... | |
| George Herman Ellwanger - 1895 - 278 páginas
...music, the regrets and sighs that would fain be sung." " I rejoice that there are owls ! " he cries. " It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight...suggesting a vast and undeveloped Nature which men have not recognised. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All day the... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1899 - 386 páginas
...it suggested only pleasing associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal...twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung... | |
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