 How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing,...  Skyline Promenades: A Potpourri - Page 171by Brooks Atkinson - 1925 - 255 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1877 - 832 pages
...have got to live a man's life, pushing all these things before them, and get on as well as they can. How many a poor immortal soul have I met, well-nigh...creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventyh've feet by forty." Our heroes were not bound by worldly attachments anywise too strong, but... | |
 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 pages
...things before them, and get on as well as they can. Hoir many a poor immortal soul have I met well nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down...road of life, pushing before it a barn seventyfive feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 pages
...things before them, and get on as well as they can. How man}' a poor immortal soul have I met well nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down...road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...them, and get on as well as they can. How many a poor immortal soul have I met ECONOMY 11 well nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down...road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 550 pages
...things before them, and get on as well as they can. How many a poor immortal soul have I met well nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushipg before it a barn seventy -five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1897 - 348 pages
...before them, and get on as well as they can, How many a poor immortal soul have I met \ \ well nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down...road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture,... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1899 - 250 pages
...what field they were called to labor in. ******* How many a poor immortal soul have I met well nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down...road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture,... | |
 | Lorenzo Sears - 1902 - 494 pages
...unnecessary and self-imposed burdens of ordinary life. Even of his plain former townsmen he says: " How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh...creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn 75 feet by 40 and 100 acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood lot ! It is a fool's life,... | |
 | Lorenzo Sears - 1902 - 506 pages
...townsmen he says: " How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under ita load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn 75 feet by 40 and 100 acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood lot ! It is a fool's life,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 268 pages
...got to live a man's life, pushing all • these things before them, and get on as well as they can. How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh...road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture,... | |
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