 There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.  Walden - Seite 205von Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 357 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Ronald Niezen - 2000 - 280 Seiten
...found in any natural object, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still" (1981, 202}. Such sentimentalism was combined with an uncompromising rejection of large industry that... | |
 | Alan D. Hodder - 2008 - 366 Seiten
...is the senses that rescue the narrator from a momentary "insanity" of separation: "There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still" (131). The obvious point here is the importance of retaining the senses in good order, but as with... | |
 | Philip Hallie - 2001 - 260 Seiten
...and sniveling sympathies are irrelevant. In the section called "Solitude" in Walden, he had written: "Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness." Thoreau would not let himself be daunted by the spectacle of nature crushing other human beings, but... | |
 | Robert E. Valett - 2002 - 139 Seiten
...feelings of earthly peace and contentment. / come and go with a strange liberty in nature. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of nature. - Henry David Thoreau 46 Oh God, I thank you for buttered slices of sunlight and the toasted air warming... | |
 | Tom Lorang Jones - 2004 - 340 Seiten
...Trail, crosses the road 0.9 mile beyond the turnoff. No formal parking is provided. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst...still. There was never yet such a storm but it was XEolian music to a healthy and innocent ear. — Henry David Thoreau, Walden BEGINNING POINT ACCESS... | |
 | Philip Cafaro - 2010 - 288 Seiten
...may be found in any natural object, even for the poor misanthrope and melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still" (131). Sometimes this connection is with individual woodchucks, squirrels, loons, or beech trees; sometimes... | |
 | Phyllis Strupp - 2004 - 272 Seiten
...Coming this summer to a feeder near you, Now this is reality programming worth watching! There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still. HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Walden The Umehj c.rowd There's something about hummers. While hummers are native... | |
 | William Bryant - 2004 - 175 Seiten
...sweet and tender, the most encouraging society may be found in any natural object — There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature." However, Bates after more than a decade on the Amazon: "The want of intellectual society, and of the... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews - 2005 - 308 Seiten
...degree that it left off sinning for a moment. RESISTANCE TO CIVIL GOVERNMENT JUNE 3 There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst...it was /Eolian music to a healthy and innocent ear — While I enjoy the friendship of the seasons I trust that nothing can make life a burden to me.... | |
 | Stephen Miller - 2006 - 380 Seiten
...Waiden (1854) he attacks Hume's and Johnson's view that solitude breeds melancholy. "There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst...still. There was never yet such a storm but it was Aeolian music to a healthy and innocent ear." Solitude, he says, enables us to see and hear the natural... | |
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