...adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extra-vagance! it depends on how you are yarded ... I desire to speak somewhere without bounds; like a...enough even to lay the foundation of a true expression. 1 1. The idiosyncrasies of Thoreau's personality and opinions are so absorbing that "paradox" has always...

...cow which kicks over the pail, leaps the cow-yard 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...

...blurb to the first edition, he wrote: Thoreau said: "I desire to speak somewhere without bounds ... for I am convinced that I cannot exaggerate enough even to lay the foundation of a true expression." The mode of life that the authors of this book are attempting to portray is typical of millions of...

...hymn to the righteous life. But Thoreau diagnoses the problem himself and situates it in language; "I am convinced that I cannot exaggerate enough even to lay the foundation of a true expression. . . . The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement....

...speaker summarizes his intention as speaking "without" (outside of) the "bounds" of his common speaking, "like a man in a waking moment, to men in their waking moments" (p. 324). The principle that supports his intention is offered in the form of a precept: that his reconstitution...

...graduate and fellow eccentric, celibate recluse: Henry David Thoreau. Like Scales, Thoreau wanted to speak "without bounds; like a man in a waking moment, to...even to lay the foundation of a true expression." Thoreau added, "Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted,...

...speak somewhere without bounds." Epilogue For Thoreau, "to speak somewhere without bounds" was to speak "like a man in a waking moment, to men in their waking moments ..." (Waiden 289). Gothic romancers choose instead to speak in the language of dreams — those moments...

...convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.... I desire to speak somewhere without bounds...; for I am convinced that I cannot exaggerate enough...feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever? (W 324) The key issues of Walden are raised here: the nature of the language, the role of...

...direction of dreams and wisdom in terms not unlike those of Keats. Of his extravagance, he writes: "I desire to speak somewhere without bounds; like...even to lay the foundation of a true expression." 87 Keats's oxymoron "diligent Indolence" captures the heart of the meaning of poetic activity: the...

...cow which kicks over the pail, leaps the cow-yard fence, and runs after her calf, in milking time. 1 desire to speak somewhere without bounds: like a man...enough even to lay the foundation of a true expression. —Henry David Thoreau, Walden All sensations of happiness have two things in common: abundance of...