 I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved...  The North American Review - Seite 4121916Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Havelock Ellis - 1890 - 268 Seiten
...sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms." So he went into Walden Woods and built himself a hut, and sowed beans, and grew strangely familiar... | |
 | Peter Anderson Graham - 1891 - 238 Seiten
...swathe and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and if it be proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world.' If complicated and artificial pleasures were struck out, so also was unnecessary pain. Thoreau... | |
 | Peter Anderson Graham - 1891 - 226 Seiten
...sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swathe and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and if it be proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 Seiten
...sturdily and Spartan-like as * to put to rout all that was not life} to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its...genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world : or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in... | |
 | 1891 - 428 Seiten
...cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its Iowest teruis, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine uieanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience,... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 494 Seiten
...sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its...genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 Seiten
...sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its...genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in... | |
 | Charles Noble - 1898 - 460 Seiten
...sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its...genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world ; or if it were sublime to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in... | |
 | 1900 - 636 Seiten
...sturdily and Spartan -like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms," &c. And this he did, with great advantage to himself and to all those who ponder over his sage reflections.... | |
 | 1900 - 874 Seiten
...sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms," &c. And this he did, with great advantage to himself and to all those who ponder over his sage reflections.... | |
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