| Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 páginas
...jealous of cities and the sad work which their refinements and artifices ma.de with man and his dwelling. The axe was always destroying his forest. " Thank...build a wood-shed with them." " The locust z-ing." " Devil's - needles zigzagging along the Nut - Meadow brook." " Sugar is not so sweet to the palate... | |
| 1862 - 796 páginas
...jealous of cities, and the sad work which their refinements and artifices made with man and his dwelling. The axe was always destroying his forest. " Thank...concludes to build a wood-shed with them." " The locust z— ing." " Devil's-needles zigzagging along the Nut-Meadow brook." " Sugar is not so sweet to the... | |
| 1886 - 500 páginas
...words, in his fine paper on '• Autumnal Tints/' Often there is a dash of humor about him, like this : The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace or teiv.ple on the earth, and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 páginas
...of cities and the sad work which their refinements and artifices made •with man and his dwelling. The axe was always destroying his forest. "Thank God,"...build a wood-shed with them." " The locust z-ing." " Devil's - needles zigzagging along the NutMeadow brook." " Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 472 páginas
...jealous of cities and the sad work which their refinements and artifices made with man and his dwelling. The axe was always destroying his forest. " Thank...build a wood-shed with them." " The locust z-ing." " Devil's - needles zigzagging along the NutMeadow brook." " Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 478 páginas
...jealous of cities and the sad work which their refinements and artifices made with man and his dwelling. The axe was always destroying his forest. "Thank God,"...build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or tem- * pie on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them."... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1883 - 336 páginas
...cannot cut down the clouds ! " " All kinds of figures are drawn on the blue ground with this librous white paint." I subjoin a few sentences taken from...earth, and at length the middle-aged man concludes to built a wood-shed with them." « The locust z-ing." " Devil's-needles zigzagging along the Nut-Meadow... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 434 páginas
...description and literary excellence : — " Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you fmd a trout in the milk." " The chub is a soft fish, and...build a wood-shed with them." " The locust z-ing." " Devil's -needles zigzagging along the NutMeadow brook." " Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1883 - 328 páginas
...\vhen you find a trout in the milk." '' The chub is a soft fish, and tastes like boiled brown pap<.r salted." "The youth gets together his materials to...a palace or temple on the earth, and at length the middle-ngt.d man concludes to built a wood-shed with them." " The locust z-ing." " Devil's-i*eedles... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 páginas
...thought of his that comes home most touchingly to those of us who are " ayont " the fifties. He says: " The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge...at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood -shed with them." My white-haired friend, how is it? And yet he finely reproaches us for being... | |
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