Hawthorne and Thoreau Dine Together Then Take a Stroll
From Nathaniel Hawthorne’s journal (via): September 1, 1842. Mr. Thoreau dined with us yesterday…. He is a keen and delicate observer of nature–a genuine observer–which, I suspect, is almost as rare a...
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(About; via Scott Esposito). Tagged: Thoreau, Transcendentalism, USC, Video Games, Walden
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“Thoreau” — Charles Ives Thoreau was a great musician, not because he played the flute but because he did not have to go to Boston to hear “the Symphony.” The rhythm of his prose, were there nothing...
View ArticleJust when I was on the point of choking with a huge German word (Nathaniel...
April 11th.–I meditated accordingly, but without any very wonderful result. Then at eight o’clock bothered myself till after nine with this eternal tale of Tieck. The forenoon was spent in scribbling;...
View ArticleMr. Thoreau has twice listened to the music of the spheres, which, for our...
Concord, August 5th.–A rainy day,–a rainy day. I am commanded to take pen in hand, and I am therefore banished to the little ten-foot-square apartment misnamed my study; but perhaps the dismalness of...
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