Forest life, by the author of 'A new home'. |
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... present aspect of society in the new country to be susceptible of improvement ; that we may be in favour of adding some finishing touches to our present degree of civilisation and refinement . To this charge it would be vain to plead ...
... present aspect of society in the new country to be susceptible of improvement ; that we may be in favour of adding some finishing touches to our present degree of civilisation and refinement . To this charge it would be vain to plead ...
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... present divested even of their real charms , and concluding in my own mind that it would be better to content myself with seeing with my own eyes . And after all , where would be the use of giving a flowery description C 3 FOREST LIFE ...
... present divested even of their real charms , and concluding in my own mind that it would be better to content myself with seeing with my own eyes . And after all , where would be the use of giving a flowery description C 3 FOREST LIFE ...
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... present ; the future - the bright , far - ahead , vague , western future , is to make up for all . The eager adventurer , unscared by diffi- culty , undiscouraged by disappointment , still " chases airy good , " contenting himself with ...
... present ; the future - the bright , far - ahead , vague , western future , is to make up for all . The eager adventurer , unscared by diffi- culty , undiscouraged by disappointment , still " chases airy good , " contenting himself with ...
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... present a sufficient variety of characteristics ; so that we think we shall like them very well if they will only stay long enough for our pre- sent favourable impressions to take root . Of outward changes , the tax - gatherer , as he ...
... present a sufficient variety of characteristics ; so that we think we shall like them very well if they will only stay long enough for our pre- sent favourable impressions to take root . Of outward changes , the tax - gatherer , as he ...
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... present , if we see now and then a great waggon , with its load of household utensils , bedsteads walling up the sides , —a washing - tub turned up to serve as a seat for the driver , -a bundle of window - sash sticking out behind ...
... present , if we see now and then a great waggon , with its load of household utensils , bedsteads walling up the sides , —a washing - tub turned up to serve as a seat for the driver , -a bundle of window - sash sticking out behind ...
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Page 91 - He travels, and I too. I tread his deck, Ascend his topmast, through his peering eyes Discover countries, with a kindred heart Suffer his woes, and share in his escapes ; While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
Page xvii - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Page 234 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
Page 180 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 47 - Coriolanus, who was afraid that ' girls with spits, and boys with stones, should slay him in puny battle ;' when the other crosses my imagination, I remember the prodigy in Macbeth : A falcon, towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.
Page 269 - In the wild depth of Winter, while without The ceaseless winds blow ice, be my retreat, Between the groaning forest and the shore Beat by the boundless multitude of waves, A rural, shelter'd, solitary scene ; Where ruddy fire and beaming tapers join, To cheer the gloom. There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead...
Page 69 - What dire necessities on every hand Our art, our strength, our fortitude require ! Of foes intestine what a numerous band Against this little throb of life conspire ! Yet science can elude their fatal ire Awhile, and turn aside death's level'd dart, Soothe the sharp pang, allay the fever's fire, And brace the nerves once more, and cheer the heart, And yet a few soft nights and balmy days impart.
Page 263 - Two elements, then, seem to be comprised in the great fact which we call civilization; — two circumstances are necessary to its existence — it lives upon two conditions — it reveals itself by two symptoms: the progress of society, the progress of individuals; the melioration of the social system, and the expansion of the mind and faculties of man.
Page 155 - I was saying, our road was not "laid," so it was a very even and pleasant one, although it led through a rough country. We had not yet lost the fresh breeze of the early morning, but the sun had become so powerful as to make the flickering shade of these scattered woods very delightful to us all. The children were never tired of watching the vagaries of the little chipmonk" as he glanced from branch to branch with almost the swiftness of light, but they screamed with pleasure when the noise of our...
Page 42 - ... une autre, tout cela n'est rien : il n'a de souvenir a placer nulle part : c'est la quantite de coups de hache qu'il faut qu'il donne pour abattre un arbre, qui est son unique id6e.