 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...  Walden - Seite 143von Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 357 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1999 - 125 Seiten
...is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live...swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2001 - 436 Seiten
...is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live...and reduce it to its lowest terms, and . . . if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.... | |
 | Burton F. Porter - 2001 - 336 Seiten
...not lived. I did not wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live...drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms."2 Thoreau was retreating from a world that entices people to obtain more and more in the way... | |
 | Laurence Coupe - 2000 - 346 Seiten
...because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. ... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live...swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner . . . (90-1) 'Life' is here an animal he must kill and eat, or a field he must harvest, or some hunted... | |
 | Laurence Coupe - 2000 - 340 Seiten
...because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. ... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live...swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner . . . (90-1) 'Life' is here an animal he must kill and eat, or a field he must harvest, or some hunted... | |
 | Eberhard Alsen - 2000 - 354 Seiten
...dedicated one. he is unashamedly candid about his involvemem in his materiaL Thoreau says. 1 wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. to live...Spartan,like as to put to rout all that was not life. to cut abroad swath and shave close. to drive life into a corner. and reduce it to its lowest terms. and.... | |
 | Charles T. Rubin - 2000 - 282 Seiten
...is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live...Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life. . . .18 Moving to his cabin provides Thoreau with some distance from the routines of Concord village,... | |
 | Victoria Brooks - 2000 - 378 Seiten
...what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live...lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to... | |
 | Thomas Ryan - 2001 - 334 Seiten
...that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life; living is so dear, I wanted to live deep, and suck out all the marrow of life, to live...Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life. ' More and more people today are realizing that the human spirit cannot find fulfillment in mere material... | |
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