The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Maine woodsHoughton, Mifflin, 1893 |
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Pagina 2
... told their stories . Besides these , very few , even among backwoodsmen and hunters , have ever climbed it , and it will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way . The mountainous region of the State of Maine ...
... told their stories . Besides these , very few , even among backwoodsmen and hunters , have ever climbed it , and it will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way . The mountainous region of the State of Maine ...
Pagina 5
... told us that one wore out in two years , or often in a single trip , on the rocks , and sold for from fourteen to sixteen dollars . There was something refreshing and wildly mu- sical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe ...
... told us that one wore out in two years , or often in a single trip , on the rocks , and sold for from fourteen to sixteen dollars . There was something refreshing and wildly mu- sical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe ...
Pagina 10
... told us , in his sluggish way , in answer to our questions , as if it were the first serious business he had to do that day , that there were Indians going " up river " he and one other to - day , before And who was the other ? Louis ...
... told us , in his sluggish way , in answer to our questions , as if it were the first serious business he had to do that day , that there were Indians going " up river " he and one other to - day , before And who was the other ? Louis ...
Pagina 14
... told me that he had been fifty or sixty miles up it in a batteau , through distant and still uncut forests . A bat- teau could hardly find a harbor now at its mouth . Deer and caribou , or reindeer , are taken here in the winter , in ...
... told me that he had been fifty or sixty miles up it in a batteau , through distant and still uncut forests . A bat- teau could hardly find a harbor now at its mouth . Deer and caribou , or reindeer , are taken here in the winter , in ...
Pagina 17
... told , for my passage from Boston to Bangor , two hundred and fifty miles , and be as rich as he pleaaes , where land virtually costs nothing , and houses only the labor of building , and he may begin life as Adam did ? If he will still ...
... told , for my passage from Boston to Bangor , two hundred and fifty miles , and be as rich as he pleaaes , where land virtually costs nothing , and houses only the labor of building , and he may begin life as Adam did ? If he will still ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Allegash arbor-vitæ asked Aster baggage Bangor bank bark batteau birch black spruce boat called camp Canadensis canoe Caucomgomoc Chesuncook Chesuncook Lake clearing common commonly companion dark dead dead-water distance East Branch falls farther feet high fire forest four Grand Lake ground half head heard Heron Lake hunter inches Indian island Kineo Ktaadn land length Lilium Canadense logs look lumberers Maine woods Mattawamkeag McCauslin meadow miles Millinocket moose moose-hide Moosehead carry Moosehead Lake morning Mount Kineo mountain Mud Pond musquash night Oldtown once paddled Passadumkeag passed Penobscot perhaps pole Polis pork portage rain rapids river road rock rocky rods seen shore side smooth sometimes soon spruce swamp thought told took trees trout Umbazookskus walked Webster Stream white spruce white-pine white-throated sparrow wild wilderness wind yellow birch
Populaire passages
Pagina 22 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre...
Pagina 336 - John's, and to and round the falls of the said river, either by boats, rafts, or other conveyance ; that when within the province of New Brunswick, the said produce shall be dealt with as if it were the produce of the said province ; that, in like manner, the inhabitants of the territory of the upper St.
Pagina 86 - I have never made this soil for thy feet, this air for thy breathing, these rocks for thy neighbors. I cannot pity nor fondle thee here, but forever relentlessly drive thee hence to where I am kind. Why seek me where I have not called thee, and then complain because you find me but a stepmother? Shouldst thou freeze or starve, or shudder thy life away, here is no shrine, nor altar, nor any access to my ear.
Pagina 295 - I remembered hearing a good deal about the "highlands" dividing the waters of the Penobscot from those of the St. John, as well as the St. Lawrence, at the time of the northeast boundary dispute, and I observed by my map, that the line claimed by Great Britain as the boundary prior to 1842 passed between Umbazookskus Lake and Mud Pond, so that we had either crossed or were then on it. These, then, according to her interpretation of the treaty of '83, were the "highlands which divide those rivers...
Pagina 109 - ... 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 to live, what a place to die and be buried in! There certainly men would live forever, and laugh at death and the grave.
Pagina 94 - Earth, as it was made forever and ever, — to be the dwelling of man, we say, — so Nature made it, and man may use it if he can. Man was not to be associated with it. It was Matter, vast, terrific, — not his Mother Earth that we have heard of, not for him to tread on, or be buried in, — no, it were being too familiar even to let his bones lie there, — the home, this, of Necessity and Fate.
Pagina 71 - While yet alive, before their tints had faded, they glistened like the fairest flowers, the product of primitive rivers; and he could hardly trust his senses, as he stood over them, that these jewels should have swam away in that Aboljacknagesic water for so long, so many dark ages; — these bright fluviatile flowers, seen of Indians only, made 90 beautiful, the Lord only knows why, to swim there!
Pagina 93 - Perhaps I most fully realized that this was primeval, untamed, and forever untamable Nature, or whatever else men call it, while coming down this part of the mountain It is difficult to conceive of a region uninhabited by man.
Pagina 86 - Vast, Titanic, inhuman Nature has got him at disadvantage, caught him alone, and pilfers him of some of his divine faculty. She does not smile on him as in the plains. She seems to say sternly, Why came ye here before your time. This ground is not prepared for you. Is it not enough that I smile in the valleys? I have never made this soil for thy feet, this air for thy breathing, these rocks for thy neighbors.
Pagina 107 - What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt-lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted. It is even more grim and wild than you had anticipated, a damp and intricate wilderness, in the spring everywhere wet and miry.