 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
 | 1916 - 466 Seiten
...resignation unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life 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." If by any possible chance "Walden" is one... | |
 | 李翠亭, 李正栓 - 1998 - 264 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 experi ence , and be able to give a true account of it... | |
 | Gayle Pemberton - 1998 - 284 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... | |
 | Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 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...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... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1999 - 125 Seiten
...put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to...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... | |
 | David Leeming, Jake Page - 1999 - 234 Seiten
...die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life ... to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms. James Fenimore Cooper and many writers after him created heroes who, while not as gentle as Thoreau... | |
 | Eberhard Alsen - 2000 - 354 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... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 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... | |
 | 92 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... | |
 | Rowland A. Sherrill - 2000 - 404 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... | |
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