Daniel Ricketson and His Friends: Letters, Poems, Sketches, EtcAnna Ricketson, Walton Ricketson Houghton, Mifflin, 1902 - 397 páginas |
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Daniel Ricketson and His Friends: Letters, Poems, Sketches, Etc. (1902) Daniel Ricketson Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
Daniel Ricketson and His Friends - Letters, Poems, Sketches, Etc. Daniel Ricketson Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
Términos y frases comunes
Alcott ambrotype Autumn beautiful Bedford birds bluebird Boston BROOKLAWN brother called Channing Cholmondeley Concord Concord River Cowper DAN'L DANIEL RICKETSON daughters DEAR FRIEND DEAR THOREAU death Emerson enjoyed F. B. SANBORN feel fields FRIEND RICKETSON friend Thoreau glad H. D. Thoreau happy haunts hear heard heart Henry HENRY D Henry Thoreau Henry's hope Hosmer Indian interest John Woolman kind regards kindly late letter lived Long Pond look Middleboro Middleborough Ponds miles mind morning mother Nature never passed peace pleasant pleasure poems poet Quaker rambles received remember river Sanborn season Shanty shore skates snow song soon soul spent spirit spring summer sweet Tarkiln Hill thank thee THEOPHILUS BROWN Thomas Bewick Thomas Cholmondeley thou thought truly trust Walden Pond walk Walton week William Howitt winter wish woods write
Pasajes populares
Página 126 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Página 307 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 284 - No matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling. If the Sacred Writers will enter and take up their abode under my roof ; if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise, and...
Página 284 - God be thanked for books ! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.
Página 279 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Página 59 - Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill. Together both, ere the high Lawns...
Página 7 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Página 126 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Página 284 - Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Página 120 - Footnotes from the page of Nature, or first forms of vegetation.
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An Independent Woman: The Autobiography of Edith Guerrier Edith Guerrier Sin vista previa disponible - 1992 |
An Independent Woman: The Autobiography of Edith Guerrier Edith Guerrier Sin vista previa disponible - 1992 |