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" The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them." "The locust z-ing." "Devil's-needles zigzagging along the... "
Complete Works - Page 447
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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The Golden Vase: A Gift for the Young

Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...dwelling-house gives out bad air, like a slaughter-house. He liked the pure fragrance of melilot. He honoured certain plants with special regard, and, over all,...locust z-ing." " Devil's - needles zigzagging along the Nut - Meadow brook." " Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear." " I put on...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10

1862 - 796 pages
...echoes, and said they were almost the only kind of kindred voices that he heard. He loved Nature BO well, was so happy in her solitude, that he became...concludes to build a wood-shed with them." " The locust z— ing." " Devil's-needles zigzagging along the Nut-Meadow brook." " Sugar is not so sweet to the...
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Wide Awake, Volume 23

1886 - 500 pages
...words, in his fine paper on '• Autumnal Tints/' Often there is a dash of humor about him, like this : The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace or teiv.ple on the earth, and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them....
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Lectures and Biographical Sketches

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 400 pages
...pondUly, — then, the gentian, and the Mikania scandens, and "life-everlasting," and a bass -tree which he visited every year when it bloomed, in the...build a wood-shed with them." " The locust z-ing." " Devil's-needles zigzagging along the Nut-Meadow brook." " Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Lectures and biographical sketches

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 478 pages
...scent, of course, reveals what is concealed from the other senses. By it he detected earthiness. IJp.^^" delighted in echoes, and said they were almost the...build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or tem- * pie on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them."...
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Excursions

Henry David Thoreau - 1883 - 336 pages
...cannot cut down the clouds ! " " All kinds of figures are drawn on the blue ground with this librous white paint." I subjoin a few sentences taken from...earth, and at length the middle-aged man concludes to built a wood-shed with them." « The locust z-ing." " Devil's-needles zigzagging along the Nut-Meadow...
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Excursions

Henry David Thoreau - 1883 - 328 pages
...\vhen you find a trout in the milk." '' The chub is a soft fish, and tastes like boiled brown pap<.r salted." "The youth gets together his materials to...a palace or temple on the earth, and at length the middle-ngt.d man concludes to built a wood-shed with them." " The locust z-ing." " Devil's-i*eedles...
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Lectures and Biographical Sketches

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 636 pages
...jealous of cities and the sad work which their refinements and artifices made with man and his dwelling.1 The axe was always destroying his forest. " Thank...build a wood-shed with them." " The locust z-ing." " Devil's-needles zigzagging along the NutMeadow brook." " Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound...
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The Succession of Forest Trees: And Wild Apples

Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 100 pages
...clover. 2 Climbing hemp-weed. " Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a ti-out in the milk." " The chub is a soft fish, and tastes...build a wood-shed with them." " The locust z-ing." " Devil's-needles zigzagging along the Nut-Meadow brook." " Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as...
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The Unitarian, Volume 5

Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 pages
...thought of his that comes home most touchingly to those of us who are " ayont " the fifties. He says: " The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge...at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood -shed with them." My white-haired friend, how is it? And yet he finely reproaches us for being...
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