 Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted...  The University Magazine and Free Review - Page 1751899Full view - About this book
 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 pages
...sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a reverie, amidst the pines, and hickories, and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds...at my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time. I grew in those seasons like corn... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1894 - 1204 pages
...undisturbed solitude, while birds sang around or JUttcd noiselessly through tho house; until by tlie sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveler's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of tho l.ipso of time. I grew, in those seasons,... | |
 | 1877 - 832 pages
...sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds...sang around or flitted noiseless through the house, urtil by the sun falling in at my west window, •or the noise of some traveller's wagon •on the... | |
 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 pages
...solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless •through the house, urtil by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time. I grew in those seasons like corn... | |
 | 1880 - 444 pages
...sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds...at my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of [he lapse of time. I grew in those seasons like corn... | |
 | 1880 - 516 pages
...through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time. I grew in those seasons like corn in the night, and they were far better than any work of the hands would have... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 pages
...sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds...at my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time. I grew in those seasons like corn... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - 1890 - 340 pages
...sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a reverie, amidst the pines, and hickories, and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds...distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time." He was well aware that these day-dreams must be accounted sheer idleness by his enterprising townsmen... | |
 | 1891 - 432 pages
...sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds...at my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time. I grew in those seasons like corn... | |
 | Peter Anderson Graham - 1891 - 238 pages
...sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around, or flitted noiselessly through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time.' But did Thoreau know from actual... | |
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