 I desire to speak somewhere without bounds; like a man in a waking moment, to men in their waking moments; for I am convinced that I cannot exaggerate enough even to lay the foundation of a true expression.  Walden - Seite 250von Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 256 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 280 Seiten
...the cow which kicks over the pail, leaps the cowyard fence, and runs after her calf, in milking time. I desire to speak somewhere without bounds ; like...feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever? In view of the future or possible, we should live quite laxly and undefined in front, our... | |
 | 1897 - 418 Seiten
...a strain of music," he asks, "feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever ? " " I am convinced that I cannot exaggerate enough even to lay the foundation of a true expression." And in accordance with his belief he habitually followed, as solid practical guides, the remotest promptings... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - 1890 - 336 Seiten
...not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limits of my daily experience. I am convinced that I cannot exaggerate enough even to lay the foundation of a true expression." The dangers and demerits of a paradoxical style are sufficiently obvious ; and no writer has ever been... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 174 Seiten
...Now put the foundations under them. WALD«, p. 3.5. Exirava- I desire to speak somewhere fxprlwim. without bounds, — like a man in a waking moment, to men in waking moments ; for I am convinced that I cannot exaggerate enough even to lay the foundation of a... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1901 - 324 Seiten
...attitude of expectation is 1 so characteristic of Thoreau that there is little risk in overemphasising it. "Who that has heard a strain of music feared then...lest he should speak extravagantly any more for ever ? ' he wrote in Walden ; intensely sensitive as he was to music, it seemed to have especially the power... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 Seiten
...the cow which kicks over the pail, leaps the cowyard fence, and runs after her calf, in milking time. I desire to speak somewhere without bounds; like a...feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever? In view of the future or possible, we should live quite laxly and undefined in front, our... | |
 | Cuyler Reynolds - 1902 - 504 Seiten
...keep place together than the Hundreth Psalm to the tune Greensleeves. Merry Wives of Windsor. ii, I. Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more for ever ? THOREAU, Walden. There are three things that I have always loved and have never understood : Painting,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 418 Seiten
...the cow which kicks over the pail, leaps the cowyard fence, and runs after her calf, in milking time. I desire to speak somewhere without bounds ; like...feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever ? In view of the future or possible, we should live quite laxly and undefined in front, our... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 428 Seiten
...cow which kicks over the pail, leaps the cowyard fence, and runs after her calf, in milking time. _! desire to speak somewhere without bounds ; like a...feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever ? In view of the future or possible, we should live quite laxly and undefined in front, our... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 534 Seiten
...I may attain to an expression in some degree adequate to truth of which I have been convinced. From a man in a waking moment, to men in their waking moments. Wandering toward the more distant boundaries of a wider pasture. Nothing is so truly bounded and obedient... | |
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