 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
 | Michael Davitt Bell - 2001 - 254 pages
...farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools": "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,... | |
 | Andres Marroquin - 2002 - 165 pages
...and had an end." He continues in the same vein: "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,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews - 2005 - 308 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...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,... | |
 | William B. Irvine - 2005 - 336 pages
...about the "successful" farmers of his village? "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,... | |
 | Harold Kaplan - 336 pages
...was that of the farmer pushing his farm before him on a barrow, "a poor immortal soul . . . well nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life." out his life, "this is, and no mistake." Near the end of his life, when he should have been most oppressed... | |
 | Steven P. Olson - 2006 - 122 pages
...continued to write for the rest of his life, Valdai was the last book that he published. met well nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down...road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty [22.9 by 12.2 meters] . . . In his view, the owners of farms and houses are, in turn,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2007 - 525 pages
...a symbol of insurmountable, or unending, labor: "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,... | |
 | Daniel Gregory Mason - 1927 - 230 pages
...tells us, "whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of....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,... | |
 | 1906 - 538 pages
...broken leg than with a broken pantaloon. In reference to the use of inherited property, he exclaims: "How many a poor immortal soul have I met wellnigh...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 - 2002 - 544 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...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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