 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 582 pages
...glorious to carve and paint tho Very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that Is the highest...would distinctly inform us how this might be done." An amusing story is told in the entertaining History of Newburyport, by Mrs. Smith, called forth by... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 584 pages
...to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which wo look, which morally •we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his ltfft. even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. If... | |
 | 1889 - 590 pages
...in his work pf soul developments if he could constantly keep in mind this motto from Thorean : ' ' Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its...contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. MEC OUR SCHOOL HOUSE, [To the writer of this paper was awarded the prize of Five Dollars according... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 174 pages
...glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, — that is the highest of arts. w«j>i3«,p.9&. beauty Real Hie. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear ; nor... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which mor« alh we cwi do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest...information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform . *r*\ us how this might be done. x/» I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 550 pages
...glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which moraDy we ct-n do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest...up, such paltry information as we get, the oracles woidd distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1854 - 392 pages
...glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest...would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1899 - 386 pages
...and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To effect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts....would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 518 pages
...glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest...would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,... | |
 | Emma Frances Angell Drake - 1902 - 240 pages
...glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest...its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most critical hour." And again he says, "We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and... | |
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It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect... 
