 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 449by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | David Starr Jordan - 1907 - 88 pages
...his materials," says Thoreau, " to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace or a temple upon earth, and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." Now why not plan for a woodshed at first and save all this waste of time and material? But the very... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1910 - 210 pages
...kind of a school will be good enough for that." "The youth gets together his materials," says Thoreau, "to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the mid6 die-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." Now, why not plan for a woodshed at first,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1913 - 394 pages
...his eyes, and to hear his adventures. They possessed every kind of interest. He had many elegances of his own, whilst he scoffed at conventional elegance....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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1914 - 592 pages
...oracular inquisition than the sight, — more oracular and trustworthy. The scent, of course, reveals whsF is concealed from the other senses. By it he detected...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... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1914 - 80 pages
...That is one reason genius seldom survives the cradle. Emerson quotes from Thoreau's manuscripts : " The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge...middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." 1 That is just about the relation of the world of action to that of dreams; but this, after all, is... | |
 | 1914 - 668 pages
...before the curtain falls on the brief chapter we call life. Emerson quotes from Thoreau's manuscripts: "The youth gets together his materials to build a...middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." That is just about the relation of the world of action to that of dreams; but this after all is the... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1916 - 162 pages
...the trivial affairs of men," and decides that human wishes are intrinsically and inevitably vain : " The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge...middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them." He takes Nature now to wife, and henceforth alternates between doubt that his expansion is bearing... | |
 | William Armstrong Fairburn - 1917 - 268 pages
...handicapped by indolent faculties for realizing the dreams. In one of Thoreau's manuscripts we read, "The youth gets together his materials to build a...on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man (with much of his life wasted) concludes to build a woodshed with them." Emerson aptly added, "Better... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...tastes like boiled brow: paper salted." ^ "The youth gets together his materials to build a bridgi \ to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on...and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build < wood-shed with them." "The locust z-ing." " Devil's-needles zigzagging alon^ the Nut-Meaclo* brook."... | |
 | Mary Hosmer Brown - 1926 - 138 pages
...England boy will begin by laying out a Keene street through his head, eight rods wide." He wrote once, "The youth gets together his materials to build a...bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace or temple on earth, and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed of them." Thoreau never descended... | |
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