 I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life...  American Literature - Page 385edited by - 1926 - 604 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Bliss Perry - American literature - 1912 - 272 pages
...particular calling to do the good which society demands of me, to save the universe from annihilation." " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...to give a true account of it in my next excursion." " It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American prose literature - 1916 - 798 pages
...not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted...it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 pages
...not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted...it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - Literary Criticism - 1919 - 528 pages
...could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow...to give a true account of it in my next excursion. The actual report of his days by the lakeside can be separated from his decision as to what they were... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1923 - 444 pages
...not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted...it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."... | |
 | William Joseph Long - American literature - 1923 - 570 pages
...not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear ; nor did I wish to practise resignation unless it was quite necessary. I wanted...to give a true account of it in my next excursion." With this explanation of Thoreau's motive, we leave the reader with Walden, — which seems to us one... | |
 | Eleanore (Sister Mary) - American essays - 1923 - 284 pages
...die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, ... to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest...to give a true account of it in my next excursion." Thoreau is an ennobler of the commonplace ; a telegraph line is for him a harp on which a wind may... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1924 - 446 pages
...not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted...it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1924 - 460 pages
...did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise Designation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep...it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 pages
...encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture,...it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy Him forever."... | |
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