The Life of Henry David Thoreau: Including Many Essays Hitherto Unpublished, and Some Account of His Family and FriendsHoughton Mifflin, 1917 - 541 páginas |
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Página 486 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said : " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 99 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Página 112 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Página 217 - Fair and softly," John he cried, But John he cried in vain, That trot became a gallop soon In spite of curb and rein.
Página 142 - WHATEVER is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
Página 183 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Página 478 - I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I say I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons.
Página 268 - If with light head erect I sing, Though all the Muses lend their force, From my poor love of anything, — The verse is weak and shallow as its source. But if with bended neck I grope, Listening behind me for my wit, With faith superior to hope, — More anxious to keep back than forward it; Making my soul accomplice there Unto the flame my heart hath lit, — Then will the verse forever wear; Time cannot bend the line which God hath writ.
Página 100 - Through these two poems the images are properly selected and nicely distinguished ; but the colours of the diction seem not sufficiently discriminated. I know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart. No mirth can, indeed, be found in his melancholy ; but I am afraid that I always meet some melancholy in his mirth.
Página 268 - IF with light head erect I sing, Though all the Muses lend their force, From my poor love of anything, The verse is weak and shallow as its source. But if with bended neck I grope Listening behind me for my wit, With faith superior to hope, More anxious to keep back than forward it, — Making my soul accomplice there Unto the flame my heart hath lit, Then will the verse forever wear, — Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.