... the inexpressible tenderness and immortal life of the grim forest, where Nature, though it be midwinter, 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,... The Maine Woods - Pagina 82door Henry David Thoreau - 1884 - 328 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Henry David Thoreau - 1864 - 344 pagina’s
...perpetual youth ; and blissful, innocent Nature, like a serene infant, is too happy to make 4* I a noise, except by a few tinkling, lisping birds and trickling rills? What a place to lire, what a place to die and be buried in! There certainly men would live forever, and laugh at death... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 464 pagina’s
...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...one of those moist evergreen hummocks ! Die and be buried who will, I mean to live here still ; My nature grows ever more young The primitive pines among.... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 464 pagina’s
...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...place to live, what a place to die and be buried in I There certainly men would live forever, and laugh at death and the grave. There they could have no... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1894 - 460 pagina’s
...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...no such thoughts as are associated with the village graveyard,—that make a grave out of one of those moist evergreen hummocks! Die and be buried who... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 522 pagina’s
...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...the village graveyard — that make a grave out of those moist evergreen hummocks ! — The Maine Woods. THE VOICE OF THE LOON. In the middle of the night,... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 598 pagina’s
...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...one of those moist evergreen hummocks! Die and be buried who will, I mean to live here still; My nature grows ever more young The primitive pines among.... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1909 - 504 pagina’s
...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...one of those moist evergreen hummocks ! Die and be buried who will, I mean to live here still; My nature grows ever more young The primitive pines among.... | |
| Walter Crane Emerson - 1916 - 354 pagina’s
...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...one of those moist evergreen hummocks! "Die and be buried who will, I mean to live here still; My nature grows ever more young The primitive pines among."... | |
| Walter Emerson - 1916 - 342 pagina’s
...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...would live forever, and laugh at death and the grave. [ i74] There they could have no such thoughts as are associated with the village graveyard, — that... | |
| Victor Carl Friesen - 1984 - 176 pagina’s
...into a primal Eden. When Thoreau is immersed in a real primitive wood, in Maine, he exclaims joyfully: "What a place to live, what a place to die and be buried in!" In this instance he has just been enumerating the sensuous qualities of this forest, and these offset... | |
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