In Praise of WalkingA.C. Fifield, 1905 - 89 páginas |
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In Praise Of Walking Henry David Thoreau,John Burroughs,Walt Whitman Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
In Praise of Walking Henry David Thoreau,John Burroughs,Walt Whitman Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Términos y frases comunes
adventure Afoot afternoon Allons American beautiful Ben Jonson BOLTON HALL charm cities civilization Cloth gilt companion Confucius delicate delightful dismal swamp distance earth edition ERNEST CROSBY feel feet fields FIFIELD Fleet Street Foolscap 8vo foot fresh give GODFREY BLOUNT goes going a journey grow H. D. THOREAU heard heart Hesperides highway hills Holy Land horizon human JAMES THOMSON JOHN BURROUGHS Journeyers knowledge landscape leave LEO TOLSTOY light literature live looks meadow merry heart Methinks miles mind Nature nett never night open road pass path pedestrian perchance poet Post free Postage id primitive forest Rhine river roadster saunterers sense side Simple Life Series society soil sometimes soul spirit spring stream swamp sweet sympathy things thoughts town trees walk walker WALT WHITMAN West westward wild wilderness wind women wonder woods words
Pasajes populares
Página 81 - I sit by and sing, Or gather rushes to make many a ring For thy long fingers...
Página 20 - He touched the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay: And now the sun had stretched out all the hills, And now was dropt into the western bay. At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue : To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.
Página 51 - Here is the test of wisdom, Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things ; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul. Now I re-examine philosophies and religions, They...
Página 79 - It is beautifully said: but in my opinion, this continual comparing of notes interferes with the involuntary impression of things upon the mind, and hurts the sentiment. If you only hint what you feel in a kind of dumb show, it is insipid: if you have to explain it, it is making a toil of a pleasure.
Página 18 - ... consequence to disturb me. Let me live where I will, on this side is the city, on that the wilderness, and ever I am leaving the city more and more, and withdrawing into the wilderness. I should not lay so much stress on this fact, if I did not believe that something like this is the prevailing tendency of my countrymen. I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west.
Página 85 - But besides the prospect which opened beneath my feet, another also opened to my inward sight, a heavenly vision, on which were written, in letters large as Hope could make them, these four words, LIBERTY, GENIUS, LOVE, VIRTUE; which have since faded into the light of common day, or mock my idle gaze. "The beautiful is vanished, and returns not.
Página 86 - ... shortly to visit the poet whom I have above named. Where is he now? Not only I myself have changed; the world, which was then new to me, has become old and incorrigible. Yet will I turn to thee in thought, O sylvan Dee, in joy, in youth and gladness as thou then wert; and thou shalt always be to me the river of Paradise, where I will drink of the waters of life freely!
Página 8 - ... home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful sauntering. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. But I prefer the first, which, indeed, is the most probable derivation. For every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth and reconquer this Holy Land from...
Página 87 - In trying to renew old recollections, we cannot as it were unfold the whole web of our existence; we must pick out the single threads. So in coming to a place where we have formerly lived and with which we have intimate associations...
Página 45 - Unless our philosophy hears the cock crow in every barnyard within our horizon, it is belated. That sound commonly reminds us that we are growing rusty and antique in our employments and habits of thought. His philosophy comes down to a more recent time than ours. There is something suggested by it that is a newer testament— the gospel according to this moment.