The Latchstring to Maine Woods and WatersHoughton Mifflin, 1916 - 228 pagina's |
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Pagina 15
... seems to be no accurate account of the real beginnings of the resort industry in Maine - now the great- est in the State . Thoreau was doubtless the first of those mentioned in the " society col- as prominent people " summering " in ...
... seems to be no accurate account of the real beginnings of the resort industry in Maine - now the great- est in the State . Thoreau was doubtless the first of those mentioned in the " society col- as prominent people " summering " in ...
Pagina 21
... seems to be established . Mr. Brackett , who was born in 1825 , and is doubtless the best living authority on the matter , says he was more than fifteen years old at the time , and is sure he was not twenty . By a process of - we ...
... seems to be established . Mr. Brackett , who was born in 1825 , and is doubtless the best living authority on the matter , says he was more than fifteen years old at the time , and is sure he was not twenty . By a process of - we ...
Pagina 28
... seems that Hobbs's mishaps were bunched in this short section of the ride , for Sewell Brackett , who stabled and rubbed down his horse , says that on turning too sharply into the yard , the rider was thrown and pitched into a big drift ...
... seems that Hobbs's mishaps were bunched in this short section of the ride , for Sewell Brackett , who stabled and rubbed down his horse , says that on turning too sharply into the yard , the rider was thrown and pitched into a big drift ...
Pagina 53
... city in the world that does more in the way of effec- tive charity in proportion to its means . There is real wholesomeness and dignity in the general life , and the city in its entirety always seems [ 53 ] Kittery to Sail Rock.
... city in the world that does more in the way of effec- tive charity in proportion to its means . There is real wholesomeness and dignity in the general life , and the city in its entirety always seems [ 53 ] Kittery to Sail Rock.
Pagina 54
Walter Crane Emerson. life , and the city in its entirety always seems to be conscious that Longfellow was its poet and Fessenden and Reed were its statesmen . I am tarrying a bit longer in Portland , not out of any prejudice as a ...
Walter Crane Emerson. life , and the city in its entirety always seems to be conscious that Longfellow was its poet and Fessenden and Reed were its statesmen . I am tarrying a bit longer in Portland , not out of any prejudice as a ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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Populaire passages
Pagina 169 - It is a country full of evergreen trees, of mossy silver birches and watery maples, the ground dotted with insipid, small, red berries, and strewn with damp and moss-grown rocks, — a country diversified with innumerable lakes and rapid streams, peopled with trout...
Pagina 157 - The village stood on a wide plain, and around it rose the mountains. They were green to their tops in summer, and in the winter white through their serried pines and drifting mists, but at every season serious and beautiful, furrowed with hollow shadows, and taking the light on masses and stretches of iron-grey crag.
Pagina 100 - An' she looked full ez rosy agin Ez the apples she was peelin'. 'Twas kin' o' kingdom-come to look On sech a blessed cretur, A dogrose blushin' to a brook Ain't modester nor sweeter. He was six foot o' man, A 1, Clear grit an' human natur' ; None couldn't quicker pitch a ton Nor dror a furrer straighter.
Pagina 170 - ... white man. Such is the home of the moose, the bear, the caribou, the wolf, the beaver, and the Indian. Who shall describe the inexpressible tenderness and immortal life of the grim forest, where Nature, though it be mid-winter, is ever in her spring, where the moss-grown and decaying trees are not old, but seem to enjoy a perpetual youth; and blissful, innocent Nature, like a serene infant, is too happy to make a noise, except by a few tinkling, lisping birds and trickling rills? What a place...
Pagina 158 - Behind the black boles of the elms that swept the vista of the street with the fine gray tracery of their boughs, stood the houses, deep-sunken in the accumulating drifts, through which each householder kept a path cut from his doorway to the road, white and clean as if hewn out of marble.
Pagina 136 - Do you know the blackened timber — do you know that racing stream With the raw, right-angled log-jam at the end; And the bar of sun-warmed shingle where a man may bask and dream To the click of shod canoe-poles round the bend? It is there that we are going with our rods and reels and traces, To a silent, smoky Indian that we know — To a couch of new-pulled hemlock with the starlight on our faces, For the Red Gods call us out and we must go ! They must go — go, etc.
Pagina 157 - They were green to their tops in summer, and in winter white through their serried pines and drifting mists, but at every season serious and beautiful, furrowed with hollow shadows, and taking the light on masses and stretches of iron-gray crag. The river swam through the plain in long curves, and slipped away at last through an unseen pass to the southward, tracing a score of miles in its course over a space that measured but three or four. The plain was very fertile, and its features, if few and...
Pagina 159 - Some cross-streets straggled away east and west with the poorer dwellings; but this, that followed the northward and southward reach of the plain, was the main thoroughfare, and had its own impressiveness, with those square white houses which they build so large in northern New England. They were all kept in scrupulous repair, though here and there the frost and thaw of many winters had heaved a fence out of plumb, and threatened the poise of the monumental urns of painted pine on gatepost.
Pagina 170 - Who shall describe the inexpressible tenderness and immortal life of the grim forest, where Nature, though it be mid-winter, is ever in her spring, where the moss-grown and decaying trees are not old, but seem to enjoy a perpetual youth; and blissful, innocent Nature, like a serene infant, is too happy to make a noise, except by a few tinkling, lisping birds and trickling rills ? THOREAU: The Maine Woods.
Pagina 170 - ... and mosquitoes, more formidable than wolves to the white man. Such is the home of the moose, the bear, the caribou, the wolf, the beaver, and the Indian. Who shall describe the inexpressible tenderness and immortal life of the grim forest...