| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 Seiten
...essential to a serene and healthy life. To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to foresee my re- ./ covery. In the midst of a gentle rain while these thoughts prevailed, I was suddenly aensible... | |
| William James - 1902 - 560 Seiten
...neighborhood of man was not essential to a serene and healthy life. To be alone was somewhat unpleasant. But, in the midst of a gentle rain, while these thoughts...Nature, in the very pattering of the drops, and in every sight and sound around my house, an infinite and unaccountable friendliness all at once, like an atmosphere,... | |
| William James - 1902 - 558 Seiten
...neighborhood of man was not essential to a serene and healthy life. To be alone was somewhat unpleasant. But, in the midst of a gentle rain, while these thoughts...Nature, in the very pattering of the drops, and in 1 Above, pp. 243 ff. every sight and sound around my house, an infinite and unac countable friendliness... | |
| 1907 - 668 Seiten
...essential to a serene and healthy life. To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to foresee my recovery. 626 627 ciety in nature, in the very pattering of the drops, and in every sound and sight around my... | |
| Ernest Albert Baker - 1908 - 316 Seiten
...essential to a serene and healthy life. To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed...Nature, in the very pattering of the drops, and in every sight and sound around my house, an infinite and unaccountable friendliness all at once like an atmosphere... | |
| Alexander Faulkner Shand - 1920 - 628 Seiten
...When he first took to his solitary life he found himself, he says, " in the midst of a gentle rain," " sensible of such sweet and beneficent society in Nature, in the very pattering of the drops, and in every sight and sound around my house an infinite and unaccountable friendliness," which " made the fancied... | |
| Mrs. Caroline Alathea Stickney Creevey - 1920 - 252 Seiten
...lonely once, when he longed for human society. But a shower of rain brought him back to nature. He says, "I was suddenly sensible of such sweet and beneficent...society in nature in the very pattering of the drops, every sound and light around my house, an infinite and unaccountable friendliness all at once like... | |
| Brooks Atkinson - 1927 - 186 Seiten
...as he doubted, however, Nature was filling his entire consciousness with her inarticulate vitality: "In the midst of a gentle rain while these thoughts prevailed, I was suddenly sensible of such a sweet and beneficent society in Nature, in the very pattering of the drops, and in every sight and... | |
| Brooks Atkinson - 1927 - 182 Seiten
...doubted, however, Nature was filling his entire consciousness with her inarticulate vitality: (tln the midst of a gentle rain while these thoughts prevailed, I was suddenly sensible of such a sweet and beneficent society in Nature, in the very pattering of the drops, and in every sight and... | |
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