 | Lucy Tappan - 1896 - 350 pagina’s
...DAVlD THOREAU. HENRY DAVID THOREAU. NATURALIST, STOIC, SCHOLAR, TRANSCENDENTALIST. EXTRACTS. FROM " WALDEN." I SHOULD not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else I knew so well. I thiuk that we may safely trust a great deal more than we do. We may waive just so... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 268 pagina’s
...difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were...;anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am conjfined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Morejover, I, on my side, require of every... | |
 | Martha Ferguson McKeown - 1950 - 308 pagina’s
...their history, written in their language, based on life's experiences of one of them. Thoreau said: "I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well." And so, my Uncle Mont becomes a symbol. He is one of the nameless thousands who helped settle America... | |
 | Leon Edel - 1970 - 49 pagina’s
...continuous and carefully documented projection of the self. Walden announces itself autobiography — "I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well." The book is an idealized and romantic account of Thoreau's sojourn in the woods. Even its beautiful... | |
 | Scott Elledge - 1986 - 420 pagina’s
...him as both, and he may have reminded some of them of Thoreau, who on the first page of Walden said: I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. ... I require of every writer, f1rst or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life. As they... | |
 | John P. Diggins - 1986 - 430 pagina’s
...admitted: "We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person who is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else I knew so well." Thoreau would perhaps have agreed with Andre Gide's candid admission: When I am not... | |
 | Edward Fowler - 2023 - 372 pagina’s
.... . . We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Henry David Thoreau, Waldeti Why the preponderance of first-person narration in modern Japanese shosetsu?... | |
 | Leonard N. Neufeldt - 1989 - 229 pagina’s
...Such a common forgetfulness, inattention, or unreflectiveness is encouraged to beat a hasty retreat in Walden; "I should not talk so much about myself if there were any body else whom I knew as well." The economist persona, whose account is confined only by his understanding... | |
 | George Douglas Atkins - 1992 - 222 pagina’s
...difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. THOREAU, Walden: or, Life in the Woods Essays belong to a literary species whose extreme variability... | |
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We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. 
