Thoreau: the Poet-naturalist: With Memorial VersesRoberts Brothers, 1873 - 357 páginas |
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THOREAU THE POET-NATURALIST William Ellery 1817-1901 Channing,F. B. (Franklin Benjamin) 1831 Sanborn,Bruce 1870-1957 Rogers, Former Owner Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 329 - " He was retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He would seem worthy of your love. The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he has viewed ; And impulses of deeper birth
Página 222 - It makes men look like gods! The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a Sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; The first true gentleman that ever breathed." DECKER. " ' I know not ' is one word ; ' I know
Página 231 - poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. 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." He has this bit of modesty : — THE POET'S
Página 175 - Come, sleep! Oh, sleep! the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low." " You meaner beauties of the night That poorly satisfy our eyes, More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What are you when the moon shall rise?
Página 175 - You meaner beauties of the night That poorly satisfy our eyes, More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What are you when the moon shall rise?
Página 48 - Oh, how feeble is man's power, That if good Fortune fall, Cannot add another hour, Nor a lost hour recall ; But come bad chance, And we join to 't our strength, And we teach it art and length, Itself o'er us t' advance.
Página 207 - pini, the pine spider, the most destructive of all forest insects, is infested, so says Ratzeburg, by thirty-five parasitical ichneumonidae. And infirmity that decays the wise doth ever make the better fool. " Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily use." The love of our poet-naturalist for the open air, his
Página 235 - but few companions by the shore. Go where he will, the wise man is at home ; His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome ; Where his clear spirit leads him, there 's his road." The well-known speech to his large
Página 295 - Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends,— Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The great good man? three treasures, love and light And calm thoughts, regular as infant's breath.
Página 252 - tis then he draws, And single fights forsaken virtue's cause : Sings still of ancient rights and better times, Seeks suffering good, arraigns successful crimes.' " And George Chapman : — ' There is no danger to a man who knows What life and death is ; there 's not any law Exceeds his knowledge.